[…] airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel to Israel on matters regarding the Contras. Former Noriega aide, Jose Blandon, testifying to Senator John Kerry’s subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations, has alleged that Harari and his network ran a […]
The Christic Institute’s allegations that there has been a ‘secret team’ of CIA and ex CIA personnel operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. It … Read more
[…] Limbaugh, who has become the Republican Party’s Goebbels, loudly applauded Clinton’s appointment of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, an appalling Texas (Democrat) senator who strongly supported the Nicaraguan contras. This seal of approval may explain why Radio Right, in its fury to denounce the Waco debacle, refused to go after Bentsen – even though he […]
[…] Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She offers the now familiar hard-right American position: all the armies currently being run by the CIA/BOSS/the Israeli state – all the ‘ contras’ – are “genuine national liberation movements which are already pro-Western” and should, therefore, be supported. It’s the dream of ‘roll-back’ in the Third World. The British […]
[…] actions in Irangate ruled by transparently political motives include: The 26-day Reagan?-Poindexter-Meese-Webster delay, beginning on October 20, 1986, of investigations into arms shipments to Iran and the Contras by Southern Air Transport, conveniently moving any revelations until after election day (San Francisco Chronicle, 3/4/87; Los Angeles Times/A.P. Wire, 1/14/87). It is significant that the […]
[…] produce important parapolitical material. The January/February issue had an extract from the 1991 deposition of Richard Brenneke, a pilot who claims to have flown missions for the Contras (which has not been seriously challenged) and to have been involved in the so-called ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by […]
[…] following the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much of it is true. Mena, Contras, drugs in and guns out, Barry Seal, Lasater, CIA – youthful Governor Clinton taking pay-offs to turn a blind eye to…..That much seems to be true; […]
[…] of the American radical right, and it is also said to have established a West German subsiduary. (10) It was an important independent fund-raising mechanism for the Contras in Nicaragua and had produced a number of pro-Contra TV ads. From the start it had particularly strong ties (through McDonald and Singlaub) with the Conservative […]
US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat This article presents an analysis of United States involvement in the coup in Fiji. The authors support the demands made in Washington by deposed Fijian Prime Minister, Dr Bavadra, for a Congressional investigation of American involvement. Published by Wellington Confidential, PO. Box 9034, Wellington, New Zealand The one-month-old … Read more
Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative … Read more
