Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. […]
[…] trade route to the Far East and the main passage through which oil reached Britain and Europe was com-pounded by the coming to power of Musaddiq in Iran. It became apparent to the British government that their regional interests could only be secured through Cyprus, their only remaining colony in the area. Towards the […]
[…] to pursue nuclear programs, no matter what the time or cost, are very different’ from traditional nuclear powers such as Britain and France. North Korea, Algeria, Libya, Iran and, of course, Iraq fit this bill. To quote: ‘They and their terrorist cousins are more likely driven by…. the desire to…. terrorise, blackmail, coerce, or […]
[…] been an intelligence officer in Palestine, and had also served in Malaya, Cyprus, Arabia and Kenya. He stayed at Lisburn till March 1973, when he transferred to Iran as an instructor at the Imperial Armed Forces College. He was awarded the CBE the same year. In 1975 he went to Nottingham, and in 1976 […]
[…] ‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics, by Jeffrey M. Bale, from Lobster 29 (1995) Enemies Within? Reviews from Lobster 29 (1995) A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran, by Mark Curtis, from Lobster 30 (1995) Recent JFK (and related) literature, by Anthony Frewin, from Lobster 31 (1996) Who were they travelling with? By Tom […]
[…] possible because everyone – except David Shayler, apparently – knows that Libya didn’t do Lockerbie. But HMG doesn’t want to embarrass America by pressing it. Now that Iran is again top of the list of America’s designated enemies, it is OK to blame them for Lockerbie; and just hope that we forget Libya. On […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — […]
Charles F. Reske Alpha Publications, Sharon Center, Ohio, USA. For Vietnam War buffs — and no particular political persuasion is necessary to be fascinated by the surreal, epic quality of that conflict — the holiest of holies is probably the Special Operations Group (SOG). One of the most shadowy organizations ever formed by the Pentagon, […]
[…] after Lansdale’s Catholic protégé, Ngo Dinh Diem, was safely ensconced as President of South Vietnam. Conein spent the next few years in the opium rich outlands of Iran as a military advisor to the Shah’s anti-communist special forces. In 1962 he returned to Vietnam as the CIA’s chief of field operations. He also served […]
[…] CIA.’ Blanche recounted to me how she had been vilified for her Declassified Eisenhower in which she disclosed Eisenhower’s role in the CIA’s overthrow of Mossadegh in Iran and Arbenz in Guatemala, and the part played by former Luce publication executive, C. D. Jackson. as Eisenhower’s director of psychological warfare. Sometime later, I was […]
