[…] handed to them by the US. ‘The UK has no intelligence assets in central Asia. We are dependent on information given to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA.’ The British overseas lobby in Whitehall – like Tony Blair – still dreams of being a ‘world player’. But it doesn’t have the tax […]
[…] at the Madison Hotel, Washington, on Dec. 1st 1979. Participants included Julian Amery MP (ex SOE, the Albanian operation, ex Air Minister); William Colby (ex head of CIA); Feulner of the Heritage Foundation; Paul Volker of the US Federal Reserve Bank; Italian Minister of Finance, Pandolfi; South African, General Fraser; former West German minister, […]
Nick Cook is a defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth […]
[…] one is that this supports Gordon Winter. For in his memoir Inside BOSS, Winter describes (p. 186) a 1968 meeting with Cecil Eprille a employee of the CIA front, Forum World Features, whom he quotes as saying, ‘There’s a feeling in America that she could become Britain’s first woman prime minister’, and suggesting that […]
[…] disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan got close. The former contra leader, Edgar Chamorro, told her […]
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 […]
[…] More than 33% suspect that the US Navy, either by accident or design, shot down TWA flight 800; More than 50% believe it is possible that the CIA ‘intentionally permitted Central American drug dealers to sell cocaine to inner-city black children’. 60% believe that the government is withholding information about Agent Orange and other […]
[…] apparently, for almost the same article. He sued Pluto Press over Michael Griffin’s book which suggested that he’d been financing Al Qa’ida (true, as far as the CIA is concerned), was involved in the BCCI fiasco (which John Kerry wrote the report on – I want to get an interview with him on that […]
[…] from international relations to crime and commerce – sometimes, I am told, turning a blind eye to some crime if it was in multinational or, for example, CIA interest – without winning the hearts and minds of his own colleagues. This, I understand, not spending cuts, was the basis of the reported ‘poor morale’ […]
[…] unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that the President had enemies in the CIA and in the Mafia. (90) This does not mean that the CIA and the Mafia killed Kennedy: but it does mean that the hypothesis that they […]
