[…] 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 […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/ CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens ate my hamster” or […]
[…] 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]: […] 2007 they purchased a company that went by the name of SFA Inc. In doing so they also obtained a subsidiary company called The Analysis Corporation. Current CIA Director John Brennan, a long-term CIA veteran, was actually undertaking a stint in the private sector and working 31 Statements from Tim Reilly of Erinys and […]
[PDF file]: Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British industrial relations reform John Kelly, New York/Abingdon: Routledge: 2010, £70 (h/b) Lawrence Black By the 1960s Allan Flanders was amongst the foremost industrial relations experts in Britain. A key figure in the ‘Oxford School’, he sat on the government Commission on Industrial Relations, provided key […]
[PDF file]: […] In this book deHaven-Smith does two main things. He traces the current use of the expression ‘conspiracy theorist’ back to the notorious 1967 memo issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that […]
[PDF file]: […] Whitlam as PM in 1975. For Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts ( CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. […]
[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]
[PDF file]: […] as communism, it appeared that Eden’s diplomacy represented a great lost opportunity. The unravelling of the French position in Vietnam and the role of the US (and CIA) in this formed the basis of the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955). and (2) the announcement in July 1955 of the lowest ever unemployment […]
[PDF file]: […] his death was ‘ . . . investigated by the local police, the county police, Scotland Yard, Special Branch, MI5; MI6 had a man present and the CIA had a man present because the Americans were interested in this’. Goslett continues: ‘It is unclear how Mangold was able to make this assertion about these […]
