[…] court documents, Glickman’s mental condition was never quite the same. He never painted again, and he ‘never led a normal social life’. Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into […]
[…] itself; the threat also has to be legitimised; and, despite the DIA and Air Force and Naval intelligence, at the apex of the legitimising process remains the CIA. The CIA’s intelligence estimation process is therefore the key area of contest for the military-industrial-complex: no threat, no dollars. This puts the CIA’s analysts under acute […]
[…] 1970s the only ‘threat’ was the Soviet Union and the key to the official measure of the ‘Soviet threat’ was the National Intelligence Estimates, prepared by the CIA. In the early 1970s those CIA estimates began to come under attack from the right who claimed that the ‘threat’ was being minimalised in pursuit of […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing […]
[…] I recall the hushed, paranoid atmosphere in a crowded restaurant. Today we know much more about the assassination than we did in 1967, and much more about CIA covert operations. The lowered voices still seem reasonable to me, and the questions they raised seem as vital now as they did then. Other scenes have […]
[…] New York he met John Malone, head of the New York FBI, and they apparently had three two hour interviews. Eddowes was shown FBI, Immigration, and, possibly, CIA files on Towers and Novotny. These proved to Eddowes satisfaction that Towers was working for the Soviets; that Novotny had been used to get close to […]
[…] reports how he had filed a Freedom of Information Act request for ‘the Agency’s information on “Armen Victorian”, “Alan Jones”, Cassava N’Tumba” and others’ .’ But ‘the CIA reply simply referred me to one man, a person identified as Henry Azadehdel.” ‘ Irving puts it this way to leave the reader to infer that […]
[…] 1950s and 60s: Armstrong wants us to see what the Agency is known to have been doing while the Oswald story unfolded. But his thesis that the CIA killed JFK and framed Oswald fails for the same reason that previous versions of this have failed: no matter how plausible the idea, no matter how […]
[…] would turn out we’re talking about the same thing. I think, for example, in late 1970 when people had become concerned about the high profile of the CIA and its lack of adaptation to current needs, the idea that you would sack a large number of ageing officers and have a smaller Washington headquarters […]
[…] the first decade of the Cold War. Lucas’ particular emphasis is on the private-public partnership this entailed: Mr Corporate Director and the organs of the US state (CIA, State Department et al) working together. Much of this is new to me (but I am not expert in the field), the detail Lucas has assembled […]
