[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] good connections amongst the exiled anti-Castro Cubans who were then nearly as numerous in New Orleans as they were in Florida. He had probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] the day of Kennedy’s killing.(12) His father never admitted to any involvement in the assassination, but did hint at some inside knowledge. He linked Lyndon Johnson with CIA agent Cord Meyer, who in turn was linked to a CIA black-ops specialist, David Morales. The latter was connected to – in Hunt’s words – the […]
[…] under the pseudonym ‘John Scelso’) was finally declassified by the Assassination Records Review Board.(13) Morley has also written at length about one George Joannides, a Miami based CIA officer, responsible for monitoring one of the anti-Castro Cuban groups with which Oswald purportedly clashed in the summer of 1963.(14) The anniversary of the Miners’ Strike […]
