[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] into detail about Angleton’s relationship with the FBI and his domestic surveillance operations in the US leading up the assassination of Kennedy. Klarenberg reminds us that: Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s removal from federal watchlists six weeks before Kennedy’s assassination. There are a number of possible interpretations here. The first is […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] nothing at all about the Kennedy assassination. And there’s the point: he doesn’t think he needs to know anything before rehashing the lone gunman nonsense. *new* The CIA and post-modernism? Thanks to Dr Youssef El-Gingihy for pointing me towards an essay showing apparent CIA interest in what might loosely be called post-modernist theory.2 The […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] of background details not discussed in Legend, that forms the basis of this essay.6 In Psychology Today Mr Epstein records that he took advice from ‘a former CIA research director’ who helpfully ‘mentioned that the agency had on occasion used a graphologist to help crack difficult cases’. Mr Epstein describes feeling ‘startled’ by the […]
[…] of Russiasupported President Yanukovich in Ukraine. But the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother […]
[PDF file]: […] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]
