[…] 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, […]
[…] ‘the allies’ have no agents, cannot ‘sell’ their message and Iraq disintegrates. US Attitude to agents America describes its foreign agents as MICE. (Its subliminal subtext implies CIA officers are ‘MEN’.) MICE stands for money, ideology, compromise and ego, airbrushing the valour of unsung heroes and patriots, often civilians, many of them amateurs. It […]
[…] In all accounts so far – ie the Wright-derived accounts – there is a single, central villain – MI5. We are getting a British version of the ‘CIA as rogue elephant’ theory of the late 1970s. And that isn’t even likely to be the whole story. While getting control of MI5 is obviously the […]
[…] was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement and director of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an organisation which likewise […]
[…] For example, his account of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, though cautious by the standards of the Australian left, does refer to the role of the CIA in funding the opposition parties and leaning on ASIO.(1) Will the academic version of MI5 for this period (should there ever be one) be as forthcoming […]
[…] 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.
[…] of the organisation’s appearance and the particular ‘pitch’ it is offering. If this was the 1950s or 60s we might assume it was an example of classic CIA funding of a putative left group. But these days, who knows? 2 Notice that he, like almost everyone else these days, writes of Nato and not […]
Alien Liaison Timothy Good Century, London, 1991 Please note: all the telephone conversations referred to by the author in this essay have been tape-recorded. Published in May 1991, the thesis in Good’s book is (a) that alien space craft have landed and/or crashed on earth; and (b) that the U.S. government is concealing this fact […]
[…] book and TV documentary that Frank Olsen, the American army scientist who was thrown out of a hotel window in 1953, after being given LSD by the CIA, had been working on biological weapons. A work colleague and friend of Olsen’s, Norman Cournoyer, told the German authors that the American Air Force had indeed […]
[…] by Senator Schweiker and the House Investigation; interviews Gerry Hemmings; and the first HSCA director, Richard Sprague, on the politics of the HSCA; discusses the death of CIA big-wig Paisley; accumulates a fair bit of Garrisonia; gives us more about Nagell; discusses Oswald qua Manchurian candidate; and interviews MK Ultra’s Sydney Gottlieb. Russell is […]
