[…] what, is going on here. Finally, on 28th March Ken asked the junior MOD minister, Roger Freeman, “If he will provide details of the use of forged CIA documents by the armed forces in Northern Ireland from 1971 to the present date.”Consider the alternatives facing the civil servant who answered this. If the answer […]
Russ Kick (ed) New York, The Disinformation Company, 2003, 350pp, $24.95 / £17.99 (available in the UK from Counter Productions and Turnaround Distribution) ISBN 0-9713942-4-5 This is the third compilation of essays from Disinformation, and, unlike the first two, nearly all the essays in this anthology have been written specifically for this publication, with […]
Tom Mangold (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) On things Angleton, Tom Mangold’s Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton (Simon and Schuster, London and New York, 1991) is very good but is not the biography it pretends to be. There is nothing on Angleton’s time in Italy after the war; and, even more extraordinary, […]
[…] It should be a major work, extremely well-researched (see his previous work on Shadrin) with many new interviews and material. Due soon from Carter’s Director of the CIA, Admiral Stansfield Turner (Rhodes Scholar 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he […]
[…] the Kennedy assassination! Life truly is a disappointment sometimes. Insider view Jeffrey Bale (see Lobsters 18, 19, 21, 29) sent me the following from Leo D. Carl’s CIA Insider’s Dictionary of US and Foreign Intelligence, Counterintelligence & Tradecraft (Washington, DC: National Intelligence Book Centre, 1996). ‘Lobster: title of an antiestablishment newsletter published two to […]
[…] has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and […]
[…] pensions etc.(13) to be left to the politicians and the electorate. This seems to be a very common, if not near universal phenomenon. Think of the FBI, CIA; think of post-war Italy. Less well known examples are constantly being reported as the history of the Cold War is revealed. The invaluable Statewatch (May-June 1996) […]
[…] source of what was supposed to be off-the-record briefing, was given as deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs in charge of media operations, Bryan Whitman.’(22) CIA and Indonesia ‘Ghosts Of A Genocide: The CIA, Suharto And Terrorist Culture’, a long account of the American (and minor British) involvement in the slaughter in […]
[…] defence establishment with the Americans. Symbolising all this is the fact that the Carlyle Group’s representative on the QinetiQ board is George Tenet, the Director of the CIA at the time of the Iraq invasion. The Carlyle Group was established in 1987 to exploit tax loopholes in Alaska, but really only took off in […]
[…] (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a parapolitical researcher and on some things he’s probably wrong, […]
