[…] * 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 […]
[…] Sadat, (13) from drifting into the Soviet orbit. The solution to this danger was to install some congenial anti-Soviet advisers in Cairo. Allen Dulles, head of the CIA, turned for help to Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen recommended Skorzeny as head of the mission. Skorzeny was uncertain but was swayed to accept after conversations with Schacht. […]
[…] DGSE had also come in for criticism for low productivity in intelligence-gathering. Its information on the Soviet Union or China is scanty and basic in comparison with CIA or MI6 material, and a report indicating a Libyan withdrawal from Chad in 1984 proved embarrassing when it became apparent the following year that the Libyans […]
[…] 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 […]
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States since […]
[…] in Western Europe led by a Communist Fifth Column had fomented widespread strikes to prevent the invasion being resisted.’ Some years ago Body made claims about the CIA involvement in the campaign but, when I wrote to him, he had no evidence. He presents none here for this striking claim about – I presume […]
[…] like one. Paul Robeson’s son alleged – without evidence as far as I could see – that his father had been giving a psychedelic drug by the CIA. More significant, in my view, was the kicker to the story that, having displayed symptoms of depression, Robeson was given 54 electroshock ‘treatments’ in Britain. (Sunday […]
[…] near the front line of the anti-communist battle of the cold war.’ () Uniquely useless The article presents Radek Sikorski, the New Atlantic Initiative, Encounter and the CIA, William Kristol, the Weekly Standard, Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Richard and Daniel Pipes and their Middle East Forum, Richard Perle, and even Team B, in a manner […]
[…] Aaronovitch didn’t refer explicitly to the most obvious thing about Laughland: he is anti-American; and anti-globalisation. But not from the left. His very interesting article on the CIA (and wider American) role in the politics of the Soviet bloc countries post 1991, ‘The Technique of a coup d’etat’, ends with this sentence: ‘But, after […]
[…] the revelation that the European Movement was only kept afloat by funds that Churchill solicited from the Americans: Sandys urgently requested £80,000 to keep it solvent. The CIA funds, channelled via Donovan and Dulles, prevented its collapse during the first two decisive meetings of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg in 1949 and 1950. […]
