[…] the U.S. intelligence estimating process; (2) but I also read books about UFOs. Both are part of political reality as I see it. Indeed both overlap: the CIA is certainly interested in UFOs. A loose alliance of intelligence officers in America, led by a CIA officer named Ron Pandolphi, has spent the last 20 […]
[…] by Malcolm Macintosh. The results changed the whole emphasis in tackling Russian targets, produced expert briefing for potential sources and for the interrogation of deserters and defectors. CIA eagerly followed the British example. The success of the enterprise was underlined by Mackintosh taking over the Soviet desk in the Cabinet Office, a post he […]
[…] though the blizzard of writs which followed its publication may have something to do with that.) In January the American researcher Mike Ruppert suggested that ‘………. the CIA bought all 50,000 copies of Scott’s book in 1972.’ Since I had read a library copy of Scott’s book many years ago, this seemed unlikely to […]
[…] was actually a sanitation team which had been sent from Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as the Domestic Wet Operations Division of the CIA.’ ‘Wet operations’ used to the euphemism used by the KGB for assassination. Do we really believe the CIA uses the same euphemism? Do we believe the […]
[…] anti-Castro Cuban end; and the anti-Castro Cubans were awash in American money and case officers. The politi cians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys […]
[…] profound. (others in the group include Senator Richard Lugar and Admiral Bobby Ray Inman.) In Secret Agenda I suggest that Admiral Inman, later Deputy Director of the CIA, should be a leading candidate for Deep Throat. Without going further into my reasons for asserting that – this letter promises to be too long already […]
[…] with five chairs in Mexican and Latin American Studies. Batholomew doesn’t prove this Rambler was the one in Dealey Plaza but he explores the LBJ, right-wing, and CIA connections on campus and in this part of Texas to great effect. Inconclusive and fascinating. Benson, Michael. Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-Z Encyclopedia. […]
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs […]
[…] is a recent term for a range of activities hitherto called propaganda, public relations, advertising and psy-ops. So while this book could have been been about the CIA, IRD, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its little UK cousin, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and all those American interventions in the Soviet bloc […]
On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The […]
