[…] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]
[PDF file]: […] General Sir John Kerr, who sacked him in November 1975. In true Seventies fashion, some furious Whitlam supporters claimed that Kerr had acted on orders from the CIA.’ Wheen does not offer an opinion on whether the ‘furious Whitlam supporters ‘ were right or wrong (I don’t think he cares); he’s interested in the […]
[PDF file]: […] equate to about 100-200 such bodies in the 50s and 60s. 15 8 were Allen Dulles, William Donovan and Walter Bedell Smith, all later prominent in the CIA. They wanted to establish a United States of Europe, for much the same reasons that Amery had advocated in 1931: it would be less work for […]
[…] Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of […]
[PDF file]: […] Perhaps the WU(C-in-C) provided useful cover for the WUCC in that alphabet soup of government committees? 15 The American observers would have been from the newly formed CIA but were also, very likely, veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. 16 By the time that the WUCC was set up in late 1949, […]
[PDF file]: […] I think it was supposed to be when he was a younger man, of a highly personal and secretive nature with one of his ministers, and the CIA were threatening to fish it out.’ (p. 252) Which rumour is about par for the course in all this. In fact we don’t need to speculate […]
[PDF file]: […] the chapter on the story of the woman concerned with the startling information that according to her son, his late father said he had worked for the CIA and had been involved with mind control projects. Which brings us back to where we were circa 1970 with the discovery by various shrinks that Sirhan […]
[PDF file]: […] 12). And, as we shall see, he returns to Orwell on a number of occasions. Now this hijacking of Orwell by the Right is not new. The CIA famously funded the 1954 Halas and Batchelor cartoon film of Animal Farm and the John Birch Society proudly had 1984 included as part of the phone […]
