[…] of the organisation’s appearance and the particular ‘pitch’ it is offering. If this was the 1950s or 60s we might assume it was an example of classic CIA funding of a putative left group. But these days, who knows? 2 Notice that he, like almost everyone else these days, writes of Nato and not […]
[…] book and TV documentary that Frank Olsen, the American army scientist who was thrown out of a hotel window in 1953, after being given LSD by the CIA, had been working on biological weapons. A work colleague and friend of Olsen’s, Norman Cournoyer, told the German authors that the American Air Force had indeed […]
[…] Civil Service regulations.) Production Services, having comprehensive printing facilities, provided forgeries of various sorts – driving licenses (Holroyd’s Eire driving license in a false name, for example), CIA identity cards, posters, press ID cards, bank statements and so on. Information Policy (Inf Pol) went into the psyops arena with smear campaigns against political figures […]
[…] of the South African Information Department in Pretoria) proving that he had been framed. Martin Dollinchek, alias Martin Donaldson (a BOSS agent who was captured when the CIA, MI6 and BOSS mounted a joint attempt to invade the Seychelles in an attempt to bring Boss’s agent of influence James Mancham back to power, to […]
[…] of its resources, both spiritual and material, into the battle with the Left. As is well known, the Vatican acted as a conduit for the transfer of CIA funds to the Christian Democrats. As for ‘the pope’s audacious ratline venture’, Phayer argues that it was once again his anti-Communism that lay behind the operation. […]
[…] as it is ideologically committed to capitalism and against any form of so cialism and secularism. Their system of secrecy reminds one of the ways that the CIA operates: routinely denying that people are members, unless it can be proved otherwise. When coupled with their doctrine of ‘individual freedom’, this means that when O.D. […]
[…] A Life (London: Penguin 1992), pp. 444-449. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, pp. 99, 118. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 70-72. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, p. 98. For the film Animal Farm and its CIA connection see Nick Cohen, ‘Cold War comfort for Orwell’, Observer 26 April 1998. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 146-147.
[…] and jihadis. Billions of dollars and high tech weaponry flow into Islamist hands; tons of heroin return from Afghanistan as the ‘cowboys’, headed by Casey at the CIA, start to spread an enormous net of American money and personnel across Pakistan and the Middle East, much of it going through the BCCI. This disastrous […]
[PDF file]: […] the first of the euphemistic cover names for U.S. covert action agencies in the post-war era, was formed in 1948, staffed and run by the newly created CIA, but nominally under the control of the State Department. In effect the CIA’s covert arm, by 1952 the OPC had forty-seven stations, 30 Cited in Carew […]
[PDF file]: […] £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting up a third organisation, the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Several members of the Information Research Department then […]
