[…] very visibly during Corbyn’s leadership of Discussed at or . 19 Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor disclosed in 1991 that some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA through the corrupt Bank of Commerce and Credit International, including 90 journalists, many of whom were in ‘senior positions’. 20 See ‘The British American Project for […]
[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 […]
[…] 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]: […] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about 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 […]
