[…] is suspected of being the KGB man who reaps the goodies gathered by people who are possibly as disapproving of the KGB as they are of the CIA. like this have been operating in France and Sweden. (Agee has been in contact with the Swedish set up.) The security services feel that once the […]
[…] For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned to Iraq at the time he did, solely at the request of the ‘allies’. He was […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
In and out of focus In the springtime weeks when senior Cabinet members Charles Clarke and Patri cia Hewitt found themselves in difficulties, it was reported that Philip (now Lord) Gould, the focus group guru with whom the pair worked very closely in Neil (now Lord) Kinnock’s kitchen cabinet 20 years earlier, was moving […]
[…] of Steamshovel Press Number Ten. It shows President Kennedy with the late Mary Meyer, in September 1963. Mary Pinchot Meyer was then separated from her husband, senior CIA officer Cord Meyer, one of the OSS members who became the first dominating clique within the Agency. (I’d never seen a picture of Mary Meyer before.) […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had the CIA not come […]
[…] is revealed as a member. (Observer 5 October 1986.) I believe, though can’t prove yet, that MRA was one of the hundreds of groups funded by the CIA after WW2 – Tom Driberg suggested this in his 1961(?) The Mystery of Moral Rearmament. Thus far the mass media in this country seem unaware that […]
[…] captives of their Whitehall sources. In fact this is more interesting than I expected. In this instance Adams has persuaded some of the big cheeses from the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new […]
[…] 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 […]
