[…] 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]: […] – 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance – in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. While this comes […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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]: […] If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. How many genuine vaccination drives […]
[PDF file]: […] refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on top of that the IRC was also instrumental in […]
