[…] Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that covert forces, including in the 1970s the CIA, have generally worked to protect the interests of property and capital when these have been (or are imagined to have been) under threat from the Left. […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] the post from Professor John Vincent, a copy of the September issue of East-West Digest. This had the reputation in left-wing circles of being funded by the CIA. Vincent appended a note saying, ‘I thought this would interest you’ to an unsigned article, ‘Strategy of Destruction: the ILP Re-Assessed’ – By a Special Correspondent’, […]
[…] ‘the StB (Czech) residency in London ran three Labour MPs.’ They named one of the three, Will Owen MP, citing as sources Frolik’s memoir, ghost-written while under CIA control, and Chapman Pincher! (This bit must be down to Andrew.) They did not mention that Owen was conning the Czechs, getting paid a lot of […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] The previous British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the ‘Yes’ campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen’s material could help lay the basis for a more serious […]
[…] programmed in some fashion, he shot Fletcher from an office of the Hughes Tool Company close to the Libyan Embassy. (Hughes Tool has been a cover for CIA.) The death of Penkofsky: a modern myth continues In Lobster 27 I commented on the developing myth surrounding the death of Oleg Penkofsky, generally assumed to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] pieces on the autopsy evidence and subsequent alteration thereof; long diatribes by Harrison E. Livingstone; and, recently, a piece based on AARB releases, which suggests that the CIA was running a variety of activities out of the Texas School Book Depository, including an arms-running ring (‘The Glaze Letters’ by William Weston, TFD May 1999). […]
