[…] IRIS, both events taking place in late 1956. In Lobster 19 and in The Clandestine Caucus I suggested that the post-1956 Common Cause must have been a CIA operation because of the presence on its post-1956 board of two men with links to the CIA. I now think this is probably false. The revelation […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
Orwellian control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy E. Martin Schotz Kurtz, Ulmer and DeLu cia, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996 Distributed in the UK by Plough Publishing House (at 01580 883344), £15.50 This is a very odd book. It is beautifully printed, bound and laid-out – a pleasure to handle. Unfortunately the content […]
[…] associates at Stoy. Given this, it is possible that he was merely a conduit for Cold War funds from other sources, either MI6 or, more likely, the CIA. Berlusconi Andersen’s government contacts don’t stop there. With the election of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994, Italy nearly became the first Western country to be run from […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the British state. ‘The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals…..experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 11 Sept. sourcebook Volume 1 Edited by Jeffery Richelson and Michael L. Evans, it includes documents relating to terrorism and Usama Bin Laden; assessments of terrorist threat; CIA profile of UBL; Congressional Research Service Reports; GAO reports, including 20 Sept. 2001 report on combatting terrorism; Presidential Directives and Executive Orders. Network Against the Terrorism […]
[…] scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges etc. etc. He lists dozens of alleged CIA operations, personnel and front companies. This third […]
