[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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). […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] important, factors were coming into play. The war coincided with “increasing emphasis placed on the strategic seabed resources by the Department of Defense,” and also by the CIA. (See Foreign Affairs Summer 1982) With new publicised scares about the massive Soviet navy there were obviously compelling reasons for putting together a SATO pact. But […]
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 […]
[…] long and largely sympathetic feature. (Donald MacIntyre got very worked up about accusations that Tony Crosland could stoop to dirty politics and may well have been a CIA ‘agent of influence’.) In response to the Ian McIntyre review I wrote a letter which included this. ‘I would have taken Mr McIntyre’s analysis more seriously […]
