[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]: […] years, Cryptome and John Young experienced various levels of interference from the authorities – being kicked off his hosting servers, receiving intimidating visits from the FBI and CIA, and having the site’s domain hacked and generally pissed about with by various nefarious techy-types. A brief – but informative – obituary of John Young can […]
[…] 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]: 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
