[…] to the members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Senate Committee on Government Affairs. (p. 17) As a congressman said on videotape to John DeLorean during an FBI corruption ‘sting’ in the 1980s, ‘Money talks and bullshit walks’. And in this case it’s taxpayers’ money, given to the arms corporations by politicians who then […]
[…] its empire in the post-war era.(5) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similiar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]
[…] of MI6 officers, principally those who had served in Beirut and the Middle East in the 1950s and 60s. ‘Izvestiya‘ (2.10.71) and ‘Koduma‘ (13.10.71), (courtesy of the FBI). A number of officers, mainly wartime, were also named in Philby’s book ‘My Silent War’ and in the various biographies written following his defection. (WYNNE TRIAL) […]
[…] who its supporters are. You find the potential terrorists by offering them a terrorist organisation to join. (Lee Harvey Oswald was probably doing something similar for the FBI in New Orleans with his one-man Fair Play for Cuba Committee.) Or informants, paid by results, elaborate, expand and exaggerate their activities. (Bits of all of […]
[…] UN in New York from 1962 to 1977’ (p609). Chuchukin is named as a KGB disinformation officer in Barron’s previous book The KGB (1974) (p212). Surely the FBI had more sense than to recruit a disinformation expert… Just to point out that there are now at least five books out now on Klaus Barbie, […]
[…] been found to be collecting data on hundreds of political groups, both right and left, and trading data with agencies of the U.S. state, such as the FBI. The best summary so far of this story to date — and a list of the groups being spied on — is to be found in […]
[…] and American foreign policy. As a member of ‘the Catholic left’ (his term), he knew the Berrigan brothers, for example; but his brother was part of the FBI squad which was trying to catch them. This is a dense but nicely and simply written multi-layered post-war history of American foreign policy in which his […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] people like Terpil. Thomas (who lives tax-free in Ashford, County Wicklow) used John McCarthy to lure his sister to Ireland, claiming she was being hunted by the FBI, CIA, Scotland Yard and the Irish Special Branch. Thomas also referred to ‘high level’ sources in Washington when he told McCarthy that Gerrit was a member […]
Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more
