[…] which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the actor Steven Seagal’s odd connections, an alleged CIA assassin who claims to have killed 117 people for the US government between 1943 and 1990, and Gordon Novel and John Lear; a piece called ‘Thieves […]
[…] is that it was a disastrous fuck-up in which the yahoos and Cowboys in the Pentagon overrode the advice (and planning) of those sensible Yankees in the CIA and the State Department.(5) For the junior British half of the story it was a disastrous fuck-up in which either the Foreign Office failed to warn […]
[…] deeply improbable. In the attempt to nail the IPS, Crozier runs a load of bullshit at the reader. He recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of […]
[…] works. I’ll tell you the real story of how Jack Kennedy got killed someday. It was supposed to be a miss! What a set of accidents! The CIA didn’t know anus from appetite that day. ” (p123) A Lobster reader writes that he repeatedly finds that photographs taken of military installations come back from […]
[…] which Hitchens seems to have flunked), letters to editors, and the texts of some of his e-mail Anti-Empire Reports.() If you know his previous work on the CIA and American imperialism ()you know what to expect. If you don’t know Blum, you should; and this is as good and as entertaining a […]
[…] much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was […]
[…] Civil Service regulations.) Production Services, having comprehensive printing facilities, provided forgeries of various sorts – driving licenses (Holroyd’s Eire driving license in a false name, for example), CIA identity cards, posters, press ID cards, bank statements and so on. Information Policy (Inf Pol) went into the psyops arena with smear campaigns against political figures […]
[…] September 2006, p.704. See also the Diana’s Inquest website: . Anon., ‘From JFK “plot” to Diana’, The New York Post, 14 July 2006; Anon., ‘Princess Di, the CIA and deadly neckties’, TMZ.com, 14 July 2006 Brighton: Pen Press Publishers, 2006. (A self publishing organisation. ) Lord Hutton, ‘The media reaction to the Hutton Report’, […]
[…] benefited most – Johnson disappeared from the story as the Garrison inquiry revealed the rich brew of millionaire businessmen, anti-Castro Cubans, White Russians, the FBI and the CIA, who were linked to Oswald. Despite his personal corruption and the war in Vietnam which he vastly expanded, Johnson also came to be seen as a […]
[…] from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One son Roy, a close friend of CIA chief William Casey, continued in a similar line of work with British trade unionists, while also having a hand in the Iran-Contra affair. Other son Dean, […]
