[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] thousands of pro-Nazi soldiers and war criminals from Eastern Europe, groups which eventually were formed into the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, funded by MI6 and then the CIA. Why did the British state import these people? First, they were regarded as potential sources of information and agents in the anti-Soviet struggle which had been […]
[…] A Life (London: Penguin 1992), pp. 444-449. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, pp. 99, 118. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 70-72. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, p. 98. For the film Animal Farm and its CIA connection see Nick Cohen, ‘Cold War comfort for Orwell’, Observer 26 April 1998. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 146-147.
[…] 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 […]
[…] Monthly Review, which he has co-edited since its foundation, Sweezy spoke a little about his wartime work for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA). Sweezy revealed that he worked from 1942-45 in London, then Paris, then Germany, on ‘research and analysis’, evaluating intelligence and British policy. He said – and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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’, […]
