Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Asil Nadir. Then I had a crazy idea. The website of the Central Intelligence Agency offered the public a searchable document archive. I typed ‘supergun’ into the CIA search engine. Up popped Project Babylon, the Iraqi Supergun. Here was a US government report on the very subject that concerned me, released under freedom of […]

View from the bridge

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[…] both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government (London: Random House, 1964), the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.14 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

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[…] both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government (London: Random House, 1964), the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

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[…] Willmets on the impact, both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government, the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Willmets on the impact, both domestically and internationally, of the book by David Wise and Thomas Ross, The Invisible Government, the first book in English about the CIA, which kicked much of this off.4 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘ CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, but predictable from that source. That same […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

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[PDF file]: […] admired it, could overcome the disinformation used by the US government and US corporations to depict any 14 Philip Agee pointed out that in Latin America the CIA station were passing money to everyone, including the Left. The US/UK supported Pol Pot in Cambodia (against Vietnam). In another words there have always been policy […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

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[PDF file]: […] neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace Continues at the foot of the next page. political dissent, coordinated by the FBI (e.g. COINTELPRO) and CIA but ultimately initiated and maintained by the major corporate conglomerates whose central goal was to perpetuate the military-industrial gravy train that World War II brought them.3 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – wrote a very good summary of the case for the CIA-dunnit scenario of Kennedy’s death. In this, the CIA organised the assassination because Kennedy was getting too friendly with Castro. Simkin recounts some of the informal contacts between Castro’s people and various deniable Americans, notably […]

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