[…] 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 […]
[…] a situation of virtual state bankruptcy. I read Beyond Hypocrisy just after rereading Christopher Lasch’s fine essay about the Congress for Cultural Freedom, written shortly after its CIA funding was exposed in 1967.(1) More than 20 years later, it still has much to commend it, including the following: ‘The modern state, among other things, […]
[…] Monthly Review, which he has co-edited since its foundation, Sweezy spoke a little about his wartime work for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA). Sweezy revealed that he worked from 1942-45 in London, then Paris, then Germany, on ‘research and analysis’, evaluating intelligence and British policy. He said – and […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to […]
[…] American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] to steal U-2 secrets. As we shall see later, Stout thought the idea that that Oswald had any ability to steal U-2 secrets was totally absurd. The CIA thought similarly. In a 14 April 1964 letter to J. Edgar Hoover, then CIA Deputy Director of Plans, Richard Helms, stated that it was virtually impossible […]
[PDF file]: […] in 1993 shifted him into position in the 14th District, where he stayed until 2004 when he quit to take up position as George W. Bush’s nominated CIA director. This was very much a return to home turf, when you consider his early career. In 1960, Goss was a Yale student, where he was […]
