[…] 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 […]
[…] More than 33% suspect that the US Navy, either by accident or design, shot down TWA flight 800; More than 50% believe it is possible that the CIA ‘intentionally permitted Central American drug dealers to sell cocaine to inner-city black children’. 60% believe that the government is withholding information about Agent Orange and other […]
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, […]
[…] from international relations to crime and commerce – sometimes, I am told, turning a blind eye to some crime if it was in multinational or, for example, CIA interest – without winning the hearts and minds of his own colleagues. This, I understand, not spending cuts, was the basis of the reported ‘poor morale’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] titled ‘FOIA requests by “Dr Victorian” ‘. In it Alexander complains about Victorian’s success in getting information and notes on p. 2, ‘I have learned that the CIA has asked both British Intelligence and the police to assist in resolving problems’ with Victorian. This may or may not have anything to do with the […]
[…] ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in oil…’ Other Means, Summer 1997 PO Box 191710, San […]
