[…] first: . 16 Skidelski is still best known for his biography of J. M. Keynes. 5 Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’17 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]
[PDF file]: […] people, they have tried to keep the very fact of their doing so secret – SIS, MI5 and GCHQ didn’t officially exist until 1989. By contrast, the CIA was set up by Congress, and has always been – formally at least – accountable to it. Britain came round to the same position eventually, but […]
[…] yellowing hard copy of a two page spread in the Mail on Sunday in 2005 by Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’2 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]
[…] ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that it been operating in Ukraine, hand-in-hand with the Ukrainian security and intelligence services, for at least a decade. The relationship had started under US […]
[PDF file]: […] has no page numbers. And thus no index, of course, even though the book’s Contents lists one. Prouty’s book appeared before Philip Agee and the other other CIA whistle-blowers of the 1970s and it is hard to envisage what the impact of Prouty’s revelations might have been had the book not been suppressed. And […]
[…] their conspiracy to oust him from power. He saw no reason to play their game or deal with their prying inspectors.’ But Saddam Hussein was correct: the CIA did indeed know they had no WMDs. I noted in Lobster 86 that two former CIA analysts had recently been talking ‘How Iraq Happened:Washington’s Fateful Misreading […]
[PDF file]: […] by the Reader’s Digest has been covered in more detail in his Deception (1989). And this account does nothing to clarify what was going on when a CIA officer, Jamieson, offered the Reader’s Digest access to the KGB defector, Nosenko. 1 The definitive account of the workings and failings of the Warren Commission is […]
[PDF file]: […] passing through Dallas on the day of the assassination. (Abrams had passed away in 1987). . . During a 1991 interview, Chauncey Holt claimed to be a CIA contract operative and a counterfeiter. He alleged that he was ordered to Dallas 3 2 to deliver forged Secret Service credentials and was subsequently swept up […]
[PDF file]: […] in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they travelling with? (Nottingham: Spokesman), which is now on-line at and expanded a little in Weissman, Kelly and Hosenball’s ‘The CIA backs the Common Market’, originally in Time Out in 1975 and reproduced in Philip Agee and Louis Woolf (eds.) Dirty Work: the CIA in Western Europe, […]
