[…] is basically a study of the ‘Red Orchestra’, an area already covered in detail. The author shows that this was, indeed, a very big spy ring. (The CIA were still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded […]
[…] 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’, […]
[…] NUS politics he became personal assistant to Ronald Gould, the National Union of Teachers general secretary who also presided over another Cold War organisation set up with CIA money, the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). A fellow student politics contemporary, Peter Robinson, also joined the staff of the NUT but, […]
[…] the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government […]
[…] long and largely sympathetic feature. (Donald MacIntyre got very worked up about accusations that Tony Crosland could stoop to dirty politics and may well have been a CIA ‘agent of influence’.) In response to the Ian McIntyre review I wrote a letter which included this. ‘I would have taken Mr McIntyre’s analysis more seriously […]
[…] important, factors were coming into play. The war coincided with “increasing emphasis placed on the strategic seabed resources by the Department of Defense,” and also by the CIA. (See Foreign Affairs Summer 1982) With new publicised scares about the massive Soviet navy there were obviously compelling reasons for putting together a SATO pact. But […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] whatever’ and Ruby corrected him by stating that it was the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Free Cuba Movement was an anti-Castro movement funded by the CIA. If we had no other evidence than this, that within 24 hours of the assassination Ruby knew who Oswald was and, moreover, knew that he was […]
[…] * Sources COVERT ACTION, the journal set up by Philip Agee and friends in the late 1970s to monitor and, if possible, counter the activities of the CIA and all the other covert arms of the post-war American Empire, is still ploughing along. It used to be distributed in this country but we haven’t […]
