[…] 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 […]
CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by […]
[…] like a jigsaw with one missing piece – a unifying project, personified by Stark. Black’s final chapter duly suggests that Stark was a long-term asset of the CIA, who infiltrated the worlds of illicit pharmaceuticals and radical politics in order to…. what? Keep tabs (no pun intended) on hippie radicals, or provoke them into […]
[…] expressed here. As ‘Garrison’ said in that ridiculous closing speech in the movie, ‘It’s up to you’.) RR 1. Stephen Dorril Mark Lane, Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?, Plexus, 1992. Jim Marrs, Crossfire; The Plot that Killed Kennedy, Carroll & Graf, 1992. David E. Scheim, The Mafia Killed […]
[…] with the mob, a good accounts of the Tyler Kent affair and Joe Kennedy and FDR’s mutual blackmail. For the Kennedy administration itself, it is the mob-Cuba- CIA interface which receives most attention, weaving in and out of graphic depictions of JFK’s colourful personal life. And Hersh presents a compelling picture of an almost […]
[…] only conceded offi cially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of the USAF and the CIA. In 1971 the publication of Klass’ Secret Sentries in Space definitively exposed the US ‘black’ space programme. Burrows’ book not only picks up where Klass left […]
[…] particular instances where such information has been used to block deals between European firms and other countries, with US firms winning the contracts. A letter from ex CIA Director James Woolsey to the Wall Street Journal (March 17 2000) in response to claims of Echelon and the US spying on European industries, admits ‘Yes, […]
[…] Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war era. […]
[…] first appeared in 1983. Wilford’s subtitle tells us what the book is going to do. Francis Stonor Saunders’ account of the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA (reviewed in Lobster 38) was titled ‘Who Paid the Piper?’ and implied, rather than actually demonstrated, that the CIA was calling the tune. Over a much […]
[…] Century’. Knightley thinks spies have been a waste of time and money in time of peace. He lists many instances of farce and chaos. He quotes imprisoned CIA officer Aldrich Ames’ opinion that it was all ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the […]
