[…] 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 […]
[…] to have been given the bum’s rush all the way down the ladder to Lobster. He told me a very strange story about his persecution by the CIA using ELF devices. My scepticism was modified by knowing of Anthony Verney’s experience, but I found it difficult to decide if my visitor was a genuine […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] meeting of the Bilderberg Group; an unprecedented and thorough audit of the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox; and the establishment of a partnership agreement between the CIA and Mossad. Amounts substantial enough for Indonesian President Sukarno to consider using it as financial backing for the establishment of an international non-aligned bank. One of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in a larger conspiracy.'(23) Gerald Posner believes that Paul was in regular contact with the Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE), the French equivalent of the CIA, ‘an arrangement not unheard of among security staffers at premier international hotels.’ He also claims that Paul ‘spent the last several hours before the crash with […]
[…] many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern incident in which MI6 and the CIA were backing different factions in the same country. The reliability of any of […]
[…] of the cases cited by Bennett there is no clear narrative to summarise. Jonestown is a good example. Bennett tells us that it might have been a CIA experiment, tells us it is ‘believed that the CIA had planted a number of their agents in Jonestown’ and that it might have been a spinoff […]
