[…] 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 […]
[…] prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the Ba’athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil revenues, a semi-industrialised authoritarian state […]
[…] photographs taken from a US satellite, and the subsequent prosecution of the individual who supplied them. There are shorter pieces on the official reception of Carter Administration CIA Chief Admiral Stansfield Turner’s recent book Secrecy and Democracy: the CIA in transition, the origins of the ‘Enigma’ machine used in WW2, and a series of […]
[…] 11-page essay on Northern Ireland by a Protestant Marxist, which I think no-one else would publish, or the long Cummings piece on The Paris Review and the CIA, whose core was printed in Lobster 47 but which is so much better in this elaborated form. They are interesting, perhaps important pieces. But interesting would […]
[…] is no reference to the Digest’s post-war activities on the political right, let alone the recent allegation by Fred Landis, that it has been working with the CIA. On p. 255 the author states:’the details of Watergate hardly need retelling’ – as if anyone is actually clear what was really going on. (Anyone who […]
[…] the general public uneasiness about the current aims of government due primarily to the harm done to the moral standing of the western democracies by Watergate and CIA activity the ultra-left (sic) have been quick to capitalise on the discontent and sensationalised reports against the security establishment and in particular the police, the intelligence […]
[…] operations in the immediate post-war period; giant political slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking […]
[…] sent him. The President had begun to develop personal sources of information from FBI men who were bypassing J. Edgar Hoover and going directly to him. Some CIA people were following a similar route and avoiding the agency …. when he heard that Big Minh and his group were planning to assassinate Diem, he […]
[…] is further underlined by Henry Patterson (Ulster University, Jordanstown) in the most important book ever written on Irish republicanism: The Politics of Illusion (Radius, Hutchinson, 1989). Declassified CIA documents, reprinted in the Irish Socialist Party publication, The Voice, revealed that the CIA also welcomed the formation of the Provos because they were ‘nationalist rather […]
[…] the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be shot or, like […]
