[…] prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the Ba’athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil revenues, a semi-industrialised authoritarian state […]
[…] the authenticity of the disinformation was bolstered by charging Dreyfus with the leak! A modern myth? In a piece about the arrest of Soviet agent in the CIA, Rick Ames, the Sunday Telegraph, 27 February, 1994, said that Ames ‘recruited Soviet agents, ruthlessly betraying at least 10, knowing they would be shot or, like […]
[…] 11-page essay on Northern Ireland by a Protestant Marxist, which I think no-one else would publish, or the long Cummings piece on The Paris Review and the CIA, whose core was printed in Lobster 47 but which is so much better in this elaborated form. They are interesting, perhaps important pieces. But interesting would […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
