[PDF file]: […] – claimed the group had the direct backing of the US State Department and the approval of her close friend Walter Bedell Smith, the director of the CIA. (p. 157)3 Declassified CIA documents show CIA Director Bedell Smith meeting Paine in 19514 and she wrote to the CIA’s H. W. Jackson that year: ‘I […]
[PDF file]: […] the activities of their Soviet bloc intelligence opponents. Then an anti-communist intelligence officer, Michal Goleniewski, working with Polish intelligence, began leaking them information. Code-named ‘Sniper’ by the CIA, he was by far the most important source the US had during the Cold War and exposed a large number of Soviet operations and identified dozens […]
[PDF file]: […] to butter Noriega up. But DEA officials praised Noriega in private as well as in public. Recalled Duane Clarridge, former head of Latin America operations for the CIA, 5 Vivienne Walt, ‘Despite French Sentence, Noriega Could Go Home’, Time, July 7, 2010. Leon Kellner, quoted in Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair […]
[…] view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]
[PDF file]: […] rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to a Turkish prison, some of his supporters uploaded to their website, jancom.org, a document, described as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of […]
[PDF file]: Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation Garrick Alder This is a sequel to ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth […]
[…] Nationalists in Scotland and Wales and the less significant Campaign for the North,38 the Yorkshire Party39 and Mebyon Kernow, the party of Cornwall.40 The Intelligence Party ‘The CIA is emerging as a domestic political party. I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial sense (though it has conspiratorial implications), and I don’t mean it literally. […]
[PDF file]: […] of the first issue,24 Garrison is very much closer to Parapolitics and Covert Action than it is to Paranoia, The Realist and Steamshovel. The Intelligence Party ‘The CIA is emerging as a domestic political party. I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial sense (though it has conspiratorial implications), and I don’t mean it literally. […]
[…] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]
[PDF file]: […] CE399. How did JFK get a back wound, about an inch deep, which contained no bullet? Holt told us that in the months before the assassination his CIA unit was modifying Mannlicher-Carcano rounds. ‘John Masen sent us several hundred bullets to be reloaded, according to very unusual specifications, which, at first glance, appeared to […]
