[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began 4 inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA 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 I […]
[…] 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]: […] chapter on ‘The Yellow Star Movement’. 34 9 “It is also his job to act as liaison man with any Right extremist group that they (i.e. the CIA) wish to contact or make use of in this country. To facilitate this he has recruited one Peter Crozier, a close associate of Colin Jordan, to […]
[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]: […] joining MI5, and thus condemning him to (relative) poverty in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, […]
[PDF file]: […] warned in advance of the Watergate burglary and let it happen, before arresting ‘the plumbers’. Even if, as is speculated here, that policeman was linked to the CIA in some way, this is not setting them up.1 The book is interesting chiefly as a firsthand account of a career agent/agent provocateur for the American […]
