[…] the post from Professor John Vincent, a copy of the September issue of East-West Digest. This had the reputation in left-wing circles of being funded by the CIA. Vincent appended a note saying, ‘I thought this would interest you’ to an unsigned article, ‘Strategy of Destruction: the ILP Re-Assessed’ – By a Special Correspondent’, […]
[…] Transatlantic Understanding, British Atlantic Committee, BAP et al); no reference to State Department or Labor Department-sponsored visits; no reference to the RIIA, Bilderberg, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter, or CIA; no Angleton, no smear campaigns. Most remarkably, Anthony Carew’s essential Labour Under the Marshall Plan is not cited. To call it ‘incomplete’ would be kind.
[…] was actually the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (p. 28); and its chair, Lane Kirkland, was certainly pro-NATO, but where is the evidence he was a ‘former CIA agent’? The Economic League did not come after Moral Re-armament (p. 28). Common Cause did not come after IRIS (p. 29). Other unsourced assertions include the […]
[…] Beverley Drive, Suite 202- A, Beverley Hills, CA 90212. The first issue is an interesting beginning, but no more. The second promises to reproduce the text of CIA Document 1035-960, the Agency’s 1967 plan for discrediting critics of the Warren Commission. Old Nazis, New Nazis One of the most impressive pamphlets to come my […]
[…] Rhodesia and reported ‘he could find no anti-Smith group to stage a counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many CIA flights carrying detainees landed in Britain. They are also planning to table an amendment to the civil aviation bill going through parliament, or the police bill […]
[…] the Carlyle Group has ‘more political connections than the White House switchboard.’ It’s luminaries include former President George Bush (Carlyle’s senior adviser on Asia), Frank Carlucci (former CIA deputy director and Defense Secretary in the Reagan era and now Carlyle emeritus Chairman), James Baker III (Bush’s Secretary of State and senior Carlyle counsellor) and […]
[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 […]
