[…] on picket lines and as a hit squad when required. He weaves in several fascinating strands from that period, including the murders of Hilda Murrell and WPC Fletcher. More importantly, there is a suggestion of a genesis in British Army-supported paramilitary activity in the north of Ireland in the 1970s. There is also a […]
[…] patsy.” Cutler sees the event as analogous to the Gary Powers U2 incident which blew the Eisenhower/Khrushchev summit in 1960. The same argument is offered by L. Fletcher Prouty in an article in the US porno mag Gallery (May 1985) which Cutler kindly sent me and which he acknowledges as a source in his […]
[…] Department and the CIA. This is completely missing from Pearce’s account. And it has been omitted. Even if Pearce is unaware of the work of the Richard Fletcher (1) and his successors – and Lobster is one – the institutions of American political power are in Healey’s own account of his life, The Time […]
[…] member Menger, and messers Ikle, Sanchez, Reich and General Paul Gorman, all second-level members of the military/intelligence establishment. (The ‘Cabal’ is, of course, strikingly similar to L. Fletcher Prouty’s ‘secret team’.) The most interesting point in the Observer piece is the claim that the crisis was being stage-managed primarily to screw-up the approaching arms/disarmaments […]
[…] the CIA’s role in Indonesia in 1958 and moves on. When I came across this I looked at his bibliography: there is no Philip Agee, no L. Fletcher Prouty, no Victor Marchetti, no John Stockwell. He has written a history of the CIA ignoring all the Agency’s main defectors and whistle-blowers. Yet in his […]
[…] left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust Young because he was secretive and he didn’t know what Young’s objectives were. L. Fletcher Prouty died on 5 June 2001. Most of the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald […]
[…] of the covert activities described in Bloch and Fitzgerald’s British Intelligence and Covert Action reviewed in this issue. The Pentagon Papers may have been a CIA operation: Fletcher Prouty has long maintained this, and he was sitting at the focal point between the Agency and the Pentagon. And Verrier has certainly had an awful […]
[…] Who they? you ask. That I don’t know. Details at http://www.directa.force9.co.uk Heavy weather An impressive reworking of the evidence that the Libyans did not kill WPC Yvonne Fletcher was published in Squall and is – or was – on their Website at www.squall.co.uk/yes/ind2.html Drug wars and Another view of the Afghani mujahidin funding their […]
[…] was (a) investigated at close range, (b) financially ruined and (c) eased out of rocket research. Or he could have been a combination of all three. L. Fletcher Prouty says in the book that he thinks Hubbard’s service records may have been ‘sheep dipped’. Whatever the history of this episode, Parsons, post-Hubbard, attracted further […]
[…] and reasonable. Lashmar ends the book unclear as to how much of this programme was known about by the politicians who were nominally in charge of it. Fletcher Prouty discussed the same question in his 1973 The Secret Team and concluded that the politicians knew very little. This is an important contribution to the […]
