[…] SIS to play a part in the anti-Soviet operations of the early years of Cold War 1 — the small-scale British version of the conversion of the CIA from an intelligence agency into a covert operations adjunct to US foreign policy. (Aldrich is one of the handfuls of British academics who are trying to […]
[…] in European royalty. He also suggested that the SS should ‘act more skillfully’ on Jewish matters to avoid ‘causing a big stir’. Dulles, later head of the CIA, had been approached by the Vatican to intercede on behalf of the German resistance after the policy of ‘unconditional surrender’ was adopted. Hence perhaps the mixture […]
[…] the argument: if there are no discrepancies, it simply shows that the lie has been imposed effectively.) There is some good stuff in here: Preston Peet on CIA drug-running, Barry Chamish on the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and Cletus Nelson on the Oklahoma City bomb are all well worth reading, as are pieces by […]
[…] for the Republican nomination in 1988 and won the Washington State primary. The spectacular downfall of several prominent evangelical preachers helped save the former head of the CIA from defeat but Bush Senior lost the Presidential Election in 1992 and the years that followed were mostly marked by political disappointment for the evangelicals. Federal […]
There is an unmistakable thread running through America’s move eastward since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using their vast economic clout – in the form of loans, grants and sanctions – and backed by threatening military supremacy (to say nothing of the devious use of ‘unattributable’ mercenary groups such as the MPRI), […]
[…] material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about the role of the CIA to recognise some of the names of the people and organisations who were turning up in NZ and the general strategy being employed. It is difficult […]
[…] The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: ‘…..When I arrived in Washington (July 1955), […]
Books The Great Betrayal Nicholas Bethel (London 1984) This is either a ‘snow job’, designed to discourage further research in this area (British intelligence attempts to destabilise Soviet and communist influenced regimes), or is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first […]
[…] how in 1975 at UCLA in Berkeley, ‘These feminists were all cruising comfortably on a huge Ford Foundation grant…’ The Ford Foundation? Didn’t they work with the CIA? Yes, indeed. Bob Feldman at < www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html > has assembled a collection of material which shows how some of the US ‘alternative media’ has been funded […]
[…] to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the […]
