[…] been in the recent past. The official US view on Israel after 1949, for instance, was that it was a ‘major asset’ in the Cold War. With Egypt and Syria dallying with the Soviet bloc during this period this might have had some validity. However Israel did not join or participate in any way […]
[…] and ordered the UN peacekeeping contingent from its buffer position in the Sinai between Egyptian and Israeli forces. However, as Tel Aviv, London and Washington knew, neither Egypt – whose main combat capability was tied down in a losing war in North Yemen – nor the hapless Syrians were in any position to pose […]
[…] post-war period prior to the mid-1970s involve cooperation between Nazi veterans and/or neo fascists and particular Arab nationalist regimes, most notably those of Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir in Egypt and Mu’ammar al-Qadhadafi in Libya, or factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However in these cases, particularly those of the aforementioned regimes, it is quite […]
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[…] to stop the West from pushing democracy down their throats and to contain or even imprison dissidents. I do not believe that we should criticise Algeria, Yemen, Egypt or Pakistan for ‘trying it on’ nor the US and France but we have every right to criticise our elected representatives and civil servants […]
[…] the claims made in Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (see below) that the Israelis had ‘cooked’ – ie intercepted, falsified and rebroadcast – communications between Jordan and Egypt during the 1967 war. Imam appears to be produced free by the Press and Information Department of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 27 Princes Gate, London […]
[…] army. The main German emissary, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin, a significant land owner in Prussia with pronounced Christian leanings, met with Lord Lloyd, a former High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sir Robert Vansittart, a career diplomat who actually had little influence with Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill. Churchill told Lord Halifax of the intentions of the […]
[…] intelligence officer. His father-in-law was Alexander Gorkin, Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court. It is also believed that Ivanov played a prominent role in Nasser’s coup in Egypt. According to Nigel West (15) he had been identified by ‘D’ branch as an intelligence officer when he first arrived in London on the 27th March […]
[…] denied). Yet other interventions are passed over in silence by Helms just as they are routinely denied in publications of CIA origins or influence: Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jordan…. Denying and obscuring the CIA’s role in various assassinations, coups, and interventions helps create in the mind of Americans a certain […]
[…] policy. There is, in sum, considerable denial in the world of American letters, and as they say at A.A., I’m told, ‘denial is not a river in Egypt’. George Plimpton ultimately knew the difference between the light and the darkness, which is why, before he died, he named Barney Rosset of Grove Press, as […]
