[…] is none. However there is a hint. Before joining the NUM Windsor had been employed by the transnational union organisation, Public Services International (PSI). William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed Press, London, 1986) includes a chapter on the joint CIA/MI5 coup run in the sixties against Chedi Jagan, the Prime Minister of […]
[…] their thinking and decisions in directions compatible with American goals.’ (p. 118 Emphasis added.) (He says nothing about the use of labour attache’ positions as cover for CIA.) And there are one or two interesting anecdotes in chapter 7 about Kaiser’s time in Britain as the number 2 at the US Embassy during the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run by the CIA. (p. 321) These incidents, at the end of the remarkable sequence of events in the three years preceding Hasting’s statement to the House of Comments which […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the UK and USA, of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), the International Student Conference and COSEC (Coordinating Secretariat). The final chapter and the conclusion discuss the CIA funding of various youth and student bodies in the fifties and sixties. These two chapters will be of particular interest to anyone who has not read […]
[…] security’ priority. Just as the Cold War was a politico-military process, globalisation is set to become a politico-financial one. And just as intelligence agencies such as the CIA and MI6 became not merely political observers but also political players in the Cold War, so might we expect them to remain not simply observers of […]
[…] 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 […]
