[…] operations in the immediate post-war period; giant political slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking […]
[…] is further underlined by Henry Patterson (Ulster University, Jordanstown) in the most important book ever written on Irish republicanism: The Politics of Illusion (Radius, Hutchinson, 1989). Declassified CIA documents, reprinted in the Irish Socialist Party publication, The Voice, revealed that the CIA also welcomed the formation of the Provos because they were ‘nationalist rather […]
[…] he laundered for his friends and allies, including the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Christian Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges […]
[…] the general public uneasiness about the current aims of government due primarily to the harm done to the moral standing of the western democracies by Watergate and CIA activity the ultra-left (sic) have been quick to capitalise on the discontent and sensationalised reports against the security establishment and in particular the police, the intelligence […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Stewart Steven’s book, Operation Splinter Factor (London 1974, 76 and 78). Steven’s book is also about Noel Field but in his version, Allen Dulles of the fledgling CIA used Field, his contacts with the Soviet bloc, and a Polish intelligence defector-in-place named Swiatlo, to create the paranoia. Swiatlo discovered ‘plots’ everywhere, their reality was […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] apparently, for almost the same article. He sued Pluto Press over Michael Griffin’s book which suggested that he’d been financing Al Qa’ida (true, as far as the CIA is concerned), was involved in the BCCI fiasco (which John Kerry wrote the report on – I want to get an interview with him on that […]
[…] the IRC has a history of being implicated in covert intelligence activities. Eric Chester, in his 1995 book Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, concludes: ‘As it grew and developed, the IRC became increasingly tied to the intelligence community; during the first years of the Cold War, it coordinated a […]
[…] of the cases cited by Bennett there is no clear narrative to summarise. Jonestown is a good example. Bennett tells us that it might have been a CIA experiment, tells us it is ‘believed that the CIA had planted a number of their agents in Jonestown’ and that it might have been a spinoff […]
