[…] to join everyone. Linville told me how much he appre ciated The Pied Piper, my biography of Allard Lowenstein, particularly the part about Lowenstein’s work for the CIA. ‘You know that The Paris Review was Peter Matthiessen’s cover,’ he said. ‘He is haunted by the CIA.’ I know for a fact that the New […]
[…] rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed ‘such interference,’(1)so as to continue subversive covert operations previously perpetrated by the CIA or MI6. This then, is a difficult area and few researchers are looking at the matter at a sufficient level of objective enquiry to outline satisfactorily […]
[…] from Channon. The expected charges were not made. The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this […]
[…] Geheim is going to produce an English- language version. Was a time in the mid 1970s that a list like this would have been newsworthy in Britain. CIA in England (Stand: Herbst 1987) Ort: CIA-Station in der US-Botschaft, London Bull, Richard C. Quellen: Agee, P.& Wolf, L. Dirty Work 1978 (p 384) Mader, J. […]
[…] (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to produce more lethal chemical and biological […]
[…] It would take three forms: mobilising public opinion, working within the Churches, and a ‘dirty tricks’ operation against the peace groups. William J. Casey, head of the CIA, met with US Information Agency (USIA) (2) to organise the propaganda campaign in Europe. A direct mailing campaign was organised with Richard Viguerie and the U.S. […]
Books Secret Contenders Melvin Beck (Sheridan Square Publications, US 1984) The CIA Christmas party of 1958 found 48 year old all-American boy, Melvin Beck, getting the offer of overseas work with Clandestine Services. He “struck like a hungry bass” and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly […]
According to the Dublin magazine Magill (August 1984), Frank Terpil was ‘kicked out’ of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made […]
[…] links to US government web servers and other US government information sources, sorted into subject categories. For example, under ‘military’, it provides links to sites on the CIA, US Army, Air Force, Navy, ARPA. Federal Web Locator http://www.law.vill.edu/FedAgency/fedwebloc.html ‘One-stop shopping point for federal government information on the world wide web’. A lot of information, […]
[…] is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle is misleading: this is really a book about the CIA and its progenitors running back into the 19th century. There is almost nothing here about the NSA, DIA, NRO and all the rest of the alphabet […]
