[…] ACSI agreed with the method applied to enhance their conventional interrogation standards. Although little concern was shown, the question of co-ordination with other agencies such as the CIA and FBI was raised. The final decision was made that the co-ordination with the other agencies would be postponed until after the conclusion of the field […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] seemed the likely proximate cause. I think I was probably wrong about that. In his Eclipse (reviewed in this issue) Mark Perry reveals (p. 43) that the CIA were angry with the Greek government because (a) they had released from jail two people the U.S. thought were terrorists, and (b) they had then expelled […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] 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 […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[…] magazine through the 1990s began when the late Harlan Girard came to see me. He told me a strange tale about being talked to constantly by the CIA who, he said, were doing so by using microwaves. I knew nothing about microwaves (had done no science since leaving school) but had read enough about […]
[…] Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. […]
[…] there is one obvious problem. They note ‘Council on Foreign Relation member Clinton’s Whitehouse contains 300 or more Council on Foreign Relations members he appointed to the CIA, NSC, State Department, and other agencies.’ The roundtable people/person interpret the near universal membership of the CFR among US elite managers to mean that the CFR […]
[…] IRIS, both events taking place in late 1956. In Lobster 19 and in The Clandestine Caucus I suggested that the post-1956 Common Cause must have been a CIA operation because of the presence on its post-1956 board of two men with links to the CIA. I now think this is probably false. The revelation […]
