[PDF file]: […] of leaks of offi cial information, anonymous briefings to journalists, and public protest by retired diplomats and intelligence personnel. In the United States, the reluctance of the CIA to produce the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little […]
[PDF file]: […] knew their involvement with the US state in these activities gave them a get-out-of-jail-free card. So they went through the motions, only to report back to their CIA handlers, ‘Gee, we failed again.’ Not only did the CIA fail to assassinate Castro, they failed to get reliable information on events and sentiment within Cuba; […]
[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]: […] tells us that in Italy in 1948 the Communists lost the election. About that election, ‘There were (and are) cries of “foul”, because of covert activity by CIA men such as Michael Ledeen or Edward Luttwak, who knew the country well.’ If he isn’t claiming that Ledeen (born 1942) and Luttwak (born 1941) were […]
[PDF file]: […] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s 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]: […] of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose successor William H Webster finally returned it four years later. However, if this is the case, the question of why the CIA might have been interested in secret documents on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage […]
[PDF file]: […] information about the status of the world economy from anyone This was the real source of conflict between United Fruit and the Arbenz government that led the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan president in 1954. It was also the reason why Fidel Castro nationalised assets of major US corporations: they had refused compensation based […]
[PDF file]: […] RT=Richard Tice, at the time, co-founder with Banks of Leave.EU / RE=Richard Edwards, a friend of Banks from Bristol) goes thus: March 7 Wikileaks release ‘Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools #1’.12 March 9 Farage visits Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy. March 10 The Guardian publishes a piece by Marina Hyde titled ‘With Farage, Assange […]
[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 […]
[…] head by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA 4 memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate […]
