[…] 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 […]
[…] Stich’s informants; but even if only part of it is true, it is an extraordinary portrait of judi cial and political corruption. Stich’s thesis is that the CIA and many other federal bureaucracies, as well as chunks of the party political machines, have been wholly corrupted by drug money. Or something like that. Some […]
[…] varies from country to country: in Britain, hardly at all; in the U.S……every once in a while there are hints that the lines between WACL and the CIA, for example, are virtually non-existent. Item: WACL’s role as the public “cover” for CIA funding of the Contras. Item: reports that WACL’s General John Singlaub and […]
[…] literature has led to a distorted picture of covert operations in this seminal period. In fact, a recreation of the predominant views with the OPC and the CIA in the early Cold War era, 1946-52, reveals that paramilitary operations were regarded as only one method on a spectrum of covert operations. Indeed, paramilitary ventures […]
[…] on.’ (1) The Labour Cabinet apparently had a mole. Chapman Pincher has written that the Labour Party had been ‘penetrated for many years by agents of the CIA …’ (2) ‘I know the identity of one former Cabinet Minister who was in regular touch with the CIA.’ (3) In what may be a reference […]
[…] military ordnance……We’re here to say it’s no accident – somebody shot this aircraft down.'(20) In order to try and explain away the hundreds of eyewitness testimonies, the CIA produced a computer-generated video of the TWA Flight 800 crash. In the CIA’s video, the plane climbs about 3,000 feet after the nose section has broken […]
[…] such a meta-conspiracy is Fletcher Prouty. In his book The Secret Team (1) he described a loose alliance of individuals centred round the upper echelons of the CIA, with members elsewhere throughout the Federal bureaucracies, and with ramifications out into the media, publishing and the academic world. Prouty appears to believe, and encourages his […]
[…] of intelligence should undertake a careful reading of the transcripts of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on the nomination of Robert Gates to be Director of the CIA. Consider just one incident, the textual appropriations, displacements, and strategies that surround the inquiry into the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II. […]
[…] Lords. (‘Donald’s Mata Hari’, Daily Record 9 August 1999) The mystery of MRA solved? The Francis Stoner Saunders book on the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA, reviewed below, is full of riveting little snippets. The one that struck me first time I flipped through the index was this, on pp. 150/1. ‘…in […]
“What would they want with me?” Lord Mountbatten had imperiously said to his secretary shortly before his death…… (1) Ulster Unionist M.P. Enoch Powell suggested that the CIA were involved in the murder of Earl Mountbatten of Burma in August 1979…”The Mountbatten murder was a high-level ‘job’ not unconnected with the nuclear strategy of […]
