[PDF file]: […] by his bosses to gather information on drugs and narcotics and asses their potential as weapons. This assignment was part of Operation Artichoke2 set up by the CIA in 1951. Another of Beecher’s objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to […]
[PDF file]: […] the very highest levels of the so cial and political order. The article concludes by suggesting statutory and constitutional reforms to improve SCAD prevention and detection.’ The CIA and opium again Professor Alfred McCoy, who first drew attention to the CIA’s role in the shipping of opium during the Vietnam war, has returned to […]
[PDF file]: […] Aldrich and Cormac reveal, GCHQ provided the Americans with ‘volumes of signals intelligence’ to help their war effort and the Americans were allowed to operate their ‘largest CIA station in the region’ out of Hong Kong. MI6 agents in the British Embassy in Hanoi provided intelligence reports on the effect of US bombing that […]
[PDF file]: […] Hunt. And that’s true up to a point. Loy Factor was brain damaged during military service; Estes was a convicted fraudster; Hunt’s claims were those a dying CIA officer whose role within the CIA had included disinformation; and McClellan’s ‘evidence’ was merely the statement of a third party buried in a book mixing fact […]
[…] General Sir John Kerr, who sacked him in November 1975. In true Seventies fashion, some furious Whitlam supporters claimed that Kerr had acted on orders from the CIA.’ Wheen does not offer an opinion on whether the ‘furious Whitlam supporters ‘ were right or wrong (I don’t think he cares); he’s interested in the […]
[…] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60 wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]
[PDF file]: […] Times 16 August 2009. 5 In ‘The Crime of Lockerbie’ in The Spokesman no. 105, 2009. Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Page 90 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Former CIA officer Robert Baer said: ‘Your justice secretary had two choices – sneak into Megrahi’s cell and smother him with his pillow or release him…. The end […]
[PDF file]: […] the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘These are the people we support.’ Fletcher gamely reproduced the piece in a mock ‘Not The Sunday Times’ format under the title ‘The Labour Party and the CIA: Who are They Travelling With?’, and sold it to political activists around the country.1 6 The piece was republished in 16 The text can be read […]
[PDF file]: […] the rest of these stories and lots of its funding may simply have been stolen. En route they wander into all manner of interesting byways, including the CIA trials in the early 1950s and the Frank Olsen case; and David Kelly and a lot of other dead microbiologists. (Just google ‘dead microbiologists’ to get […]
