[…] their thinking and decisions in directions compatible with American goals.’ (p. 118 Emphasis added.) (He says nothing about the use of labour attache’ positions as cover for CIA.) And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the […]
[…] for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () Take the following sentence of the author’s: ‘Under a top-secret CIA research project, code-named MK-Ultra, British and American scientists began carrying out experiments using psychedelic and other mind-altering drugs.’ That bit is true (though the British role […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] political fixers and finan cial manipulators’. More to the point, he also traces the history of the complicated entanglement of the US government, or more specifically the CIA, with the Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed virtually non-stop from when Japan regained its independence in 1952 until the present day. The CIA was still […]
[…] get confused. Sometimes referred to as Tim and Tony) MILNE, Tim 1940 MI6 Sect. V (Iberia) under Philby 1948 Dept. Head R5, Staff Officer, worked with local CIA rep. 1959 Witness at Philby’s wedding 1962 Beirut OLDFIELD, Sir Maurice CCMG (1978) KCMG (1975) CMG (1964) CBE(1956) MBE (1946) B.16/11/15, D.11/3/81 Manchester University Athenaeum (committee […]
[…] Eye speculating that the World Wildlife Fund was some kind of cover for intelligence personnel. This thought cropped up once again with the obituary of the former CIA officer Donald Aspinall Allan (Washington Post, 5 August 2006 ). Allan’s career included spells at the New YorkTimes, Newsweek, the Reporter and the North American Newspaper […]
[…] us that on seven separate occasions in the build-up to the war on Iraq editor Alton refused to publish well-sourced stories from its US correspondent that the CIA knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Ed Vulliamy repeatedly filed his on-the-record account with supporting documentation from Mel Goodman, the former head […]
[…] to noise ratio is pretty low at the moment. Peter E. Newell (p. 12) has contributed an important essay on the hitherto almost entirely unknown Cold War CIA labour front, the Confederation of Free Trade Unionists in Exile. Tom Easton’s review essay (p. 17) on the history of the SDP which follows, is another […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] 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 […]
