[…] cities of Pakistan and even into its military and intelligence services. Western operations in West Asia have to deal with a world beyond Afghanistan that encompasses Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia – as well as India with its massive Muslim population that sometimes chafes under the even more massive presence of aggressive Hindu nationalism. […]
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]
[…] German, Spanish and Hispanic business figures in Madrid. He launched his own export bank a month later. By July 1952 he was discussing the economic situation in Iran and issuing a Plan for Iran with Mossadegh. This coincided with the officers he had met in Egypt the previous year overthrowing King Farouk and demanding […]
[…] lot of money and they needed a high oil price to save them.”‘ ‘He says he was convinced of this by the attitude of the Shah of Iran, who in one crucial day in 1974 moved from the Saudi view, that a hike would be dangerous to OPEC, because it would alienate the US, […]
[…] Pigs veterans, the mob and dissidents in the CIA, we can also factor in the Greek Colonels (business partners of Onassis and bankrolling Nixon),() the Shah of Iran (bitterly opposed to the Kennedys and also bankrolling Nixon), ( ) LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover and the mob-linked billionaire with a grudge, Aristotle Onassis. We have […]
[…] 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 — […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
