The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

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[…] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Misc reviews

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[…] from the scene hours before the plane was officially ‘found’.) Culprits? Many interests had reason to want Hammarskjold dead: the French, dickering in Central Africa; the Americans (CIA), obsessed with the red menace, who thought this meddling Swede was a bit pink; South Africa, afraid that the UN would encourage African nationalism in the […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] But it’s difficult to see how MOSSAD agents could remain undetected in a closed society like Iran. Later, sections of an increasingly divided Iranian media suggested the CIA were to blame. But as New York Times journalist James Risen has revealed, the CIA has been a busted flush in Iran for over a decade. […]

South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] no idea what to do.’ Finally, in the world of the spooks we come to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture of a CIA detainee in 2002 leading to at least three waterboard sessions, subsequently drafted the cable that ordered destruction of the videotape evidence of torture, and served as […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] the assignment with glee. In late 1971 he moved over to the Committee to Re-elect the President from the Plumbers team, where he had worked with former CIA officer Howard Hunt on the Fielding break-in as part of their efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the highly embarrassing secret history of the Vietnam […]

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