[…] as an agent – hardly positions of influence to rival that of his previous employment as the head of SIS’s anti-Soviet desk and liaison officer with the CIA in Washington. It can be argued, however, that the political and social damage inflicted on the then British ruling elite by the various defections, and the […]
[…] 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’, […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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). […]
