[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] magazine through the 1990s began when the late Harlan Girard came to see me. He told me a strange tale about being talked to constantly by the CIA who, he said, were doing so by using microwaves. I knew nothing about microwaves (had done no science since leaving school) but had read enough about […]
Dr Mary’s Monkey Edward T. Haslam Waterville (Oregon): Trineday, 2007 (www.Trineday.com) $19.95 (US), p/b The Kennedy assassination literature has produced some oddities over the years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, […]
[…] many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern incident in which MI6 and the CIA were backing different factions in the same country. The reliability of any of […]
[…] photographs taken from a US satellite, and the subsequent prosecution of the individual who supplied them. There are shorter pieces on the official reception of Carter Administration CIA Chief Admiral Stansfield Turner’s recent book Secrecy and Democracy: the CIA in transition, the origins of the ‘Enigma’ machine used in WW2, and a series of […]
[PDF file]: […] The deed that proved fatal to his career, the so-called ‘smoking gun’, was a taped Oval Office conversation in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed […]
[PDF file]: […] Confessions in the latter case implicated Dr. Orlando Bosch Avila, a Cuban emigré then living in Venezuela and a veteran of at least three anti-Castro plots with CIA and/or Mafia backing. Bosch, in turn, had participated enough in the planning of the Letelier assassination by Cuban exiles to give information leading to subpoenas for […]
