[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a post-modernist […]
[PDF file]: […] Defense Secretary McNamara apparently rejected the plan. The Northwoods documents can be seen at . It is just possible that the rejection of Northwoods led to the CIA plan to stage a phoney assassination attempt on JFK, which has been described by fringe participant, the late Chauncey Holt in his memoir. I reviewed this […]
[PDF file]: […] in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing considering he was Jewish!) and was treated with such brutality that he was in a vegetative state when […]
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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: Contents Lobster 58 Who let the dogs out? Alpha Dogs How political spin became a global business James Harding London: Atlantic Books, 2008, £9.99 Reviewed by ‘Consultant’ In early 2006, a Nepali citizen was kidnapped by Maoist rebels. He had been carrying out opinion surveys on behalf of (pollster) Stan Greenberg’s US firm, to find […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
