[…] conflict between research into conspiracies and ‘the systemic view’. What Berlet seems unwilling to acknowledge is that within a ‘systemic view’ of the United States (or the CIA, or the Congress-Presidency relationship, or whatever) there are going be conspiracies of individuals: and when the individuals are as powerful as, say, senior CIA personnel, the […]
[…] Werbell. Then he met Syliva Odio; and from her the anti-Castro Cuban leader of Alpha 66, Antonio Ve ciana — and from Veciana he heard of the CIA officer Veciana worked with, ‘Maurice Bishop’, identified tentatively as David Attlee Phillips. He was then hired to work for the House Select Committee on Assassinations — […]
[…] for four to five weeks prior to the day of the anti-Gaddafi demonstration by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an organisation financed by the CIA. Unbelievably, this operation was wound up the day before the demonstration! Dr Thomas is convinced that the single bullet which killed the police officer was fired […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] was fairly clear then, that Cuban and Nicaraguan exiles were far more important in this trade. These errors were not innocent misunderstandings. The close links between the CIA and the drugs trade meant that the US state knew that these stories were untrue – were no more than conspiratorial fantasies – and permitted them […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] there is one obvious problem. They note ‘Council on Foreign Relation member Clinton’s Whitehouse contains 300 or more Council on Foreign Relations members he appointed to the CIA, NSC, State Department, and other agencies.’ The roundtable people/person interpret the near universal membership of the CFR among US elite managers to mean that the CFR […]
[…] raise a legion of Croatian exiles to overthrow Castro! Draganovic disappeared in 1967, resurfacing in Yugoslavia where he was wanted as a war criminal. According to the CIA, the most likely explanation for this was that he was handed over by the Vatican as part of their rapprochement with the Tito regime. Part of […]
