[…] A third version appeared in 1980, entitled Beyond The Gemstone Files. It claimed to have being ‘written’ by one Peter Renzo, who claimed to be an ex- CIA agent. (A story and excerpts from this appeared in the Boston Globe April 19 1980). Renzo was, of course, a bullshitter, and, as the excerpts show, […]
[…] and Russia, to minimize the role played by revolutionary vanguard parties in the Russian and communist Chinese revolutions, or to deny that powerful intelligence services like the CIA and the KGB have fomented coups and intervened massively in the internal affairs of other sovereign states since the end of World War II. In short, […]
[…] The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: ‘…..When I arrived in Washington (July 1955), […]
[…] evidence – the key piece dating back to 1998 – which show that the whodunit aspect of the case has been solved: LBJ had Kennedy killed to save his political career and keep himself out of jail. It wasn’t the mob, or the CIA, or the anti-Castro Cubans; it was LBJ, a bent Texas politician.
[…] Sweden, Greece and Switzerland. Characteristically, this directive includes a special notice which authorized its distribution to the Allied Intelligence Services of Great Britain, including the United States CIA. Question Could you tell us some of the BIS actions aimed at the Soviet Union? K.P. I could illustrate your question in conjunction with the tourist […]
[…] Cold War era programs (11 pp.) GAO/T-NSIAD-94-266, September 1994. During World War 2 and the Cold War, US Government agencies (including the DoD, Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA and Dept. of Energy) conducted or sponsored extensive radiological, chemical and biological research programmes, in which hundreds of thousands of people were used as (often unwitting) […]
[…] is a schizophrenic and her tales are delusions. Dr. Sue Arrigo denies this, calls it a smear and claims to have been drugged and tortured by the CIA. This one, as the old cliché has it, is going to run and run. Notes You can read more about her involvement in the debate at […]
[…] eating American shit and swearing that it’s ice-cream. Notes The piece of electronic circuitry which was the core of the physical evidence was apparently planted by the CIA. See Lobster 50 p.31. Evidence presented by the prosecution as being from the suitcase containing the bomb was apparently from the lab tests of an identical […]
[…] a situation of virtual state bankruptcy. I read Beyond Hypocrisy just after rereading Christopher Lasch’s fine essay about the Congress for Cultural Freedom, written shortly after its CIA funding was exposed in 1967.(1) More than 20 years later, it still has much to commend it, including the following: ‘The modern state, among other things, […]
[…] Sadat, (13) from drifting into the Soviet orbit. The solution to this danger was to install some congenial anti-Soviet advisers in Cairo. Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, turned for help to Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen recommended Skorzeny as head of the mission. Skorzeny was uncertain but was swayed to accept after conversations with Schacht. […]
