Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by privileged young career politicians who ‘know no life outside politics’. Had I been too harsh in […]
[PDF file]: […] of 1960, I was the focal-point officer assigned by the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and […]
[PDF file]: […] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]
[PDF file]: […] suspicion. But MacQueen follows the logic of Senator Leahy to suggest a team of people with access to the highly sophisticated Ames strain being developed by the CIA and US military, and the means to distribute it, had to be involved. He doesn’t name names but says: ‘Certain groups and organisations, based on both […]
[…] blocked the appointment by threatening to resign. As far as he was concerned, Patel was totally unfit and unqualified. Similarly, when Patel was considered for a top CIA job, Gina Haspel, the Director of the Agency, threatened to resign if Trump went ahead. And then once he was appointed to the NSC, Patel had […]
[PDF file]: […] America is always right, well-intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. “Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.” If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]
[PDF file]: […] activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have gone so far as to suggest the entire CIA should be privatised.4 One of the few books on the subject of privatised intelligence, Tim Shorrock’s 2008 Spies for Hire, made it very clear that the […]
[PDF file]: The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis Garrick Alder It has already been proven in court that the 1968 assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. was the result of a conspiracy involving elements of the US Federal Government.1 This essay is not going to re-hash the work that went into […]
Contents Lobster 58 Unless otherwise stated, reviews below are by Robin Ramsay. Books Climbing the Bookshelves Shirley Williams London: Virago, 2009, £20 Tom Easton I learned of this autobiography through catching the husky tones of Baroness Williams reading from its closing chapter on Radio 4. She was warning of the dangers of being ruled by […]
[PDF file]: […] by Guerber into running the story? Fourthly, Guerber was a respected journalist with well-placed sources. Andrew Rosthorn informs me that A serious book by Frederic Charpier (La CIA en France – 60 ans d’ingérence dans les affaires françaises, Paris, Seuil, 2008) on sixty years of CIA interference in France . . . cites an […]
