[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] when Seal told his handlers that cocaine was being trans-shipped through Nicaragua with the permission of high-level government officials. In an effort to frame the Sandinistas, the CIA installed a hidden camera in Seal’s C-130 cargo plane (the same plane, incidentally, that later crashed in Nicaragua leading to the capture of Eugene Hasenfus in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to turn the clock back and America speeding it forward (or, feudalism versus capitalism); corporations having rights as individuals, an individual having absolute right; the KGB, the CIA; rule by elites, one by decree, the other in a popular vote; ever-expanding territorial land grab towards their Pacific and Arctic meeting points; destinies pursued With […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] out of Vietnam and seems to have acquired a more rational appreciation of the situation there than the Americans did. After 1966 the counter-intelligence section of the CIA, headed by the loony James Angleton, came to believe that Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent; and CIA counter-intelligence was the ultimate source of […]
[…] intervention in the Indian sub-continent and the pivotal point for clandestine military assistance to the Afghan rebels – still the largest per-capita finan cial commitment in the CIA budget. In Zia, the US found an enthusiastic partner in the bid to arm and support the most reactionary Islamic factions in the mojahedin. Pakistan’s strategic […]
[…] 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 […]
