[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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[…] op, A Rich Harvest Of Bitter Fruit, by Stephen Long, forthcoming from Icon Books. Long tells us in his introduction that he stumbled across 6,700 pages of CIA files on the op in the US National Archives. This isn’t my field, as academics say, and doesn’t really interest me greatly. However a skim of […]
