[…] the use of ‘personnel from’ the various agencies above. The involvement of those agencies, as agencies, has not been proved. There is no official paper: indeed, the Pentagon has denied that the Army unit Pepper claims was involved existed in 1968. We don’t know how high up the chain of command within the military […]
[…] local sentiments: Pir Baksh Bardiwal, the intelligence chief for the Eastern Shura, said that he would welcome a massive influx of U.S. troops. He believed that the Pentagon planners were making a grave mistake by not surrounding Tora Bora. A U.S. journalist who was there, Philip Smucker, claims that the treachery of the local […]
[…] the Bush cabinets, the most brutal of which is the account of Colin Powell, whose career as ‘house nigger’ (my term, not the Parrys’), first for the Pentagon and then for the Bush regime, climaxed when he delivered the regime’s lies about Iraq’s weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no […]
[…] and are now as high as anywhere outside of Manhattan? Well, the Mob happened, in the persons of Bugsy Siegal and Meyer Lansky – as did the Pentagon, courtesy of the US atomic testing programme. Both these influxes of outside talent, people with ‘juice’ to use the Vegas parlance, were presaged by three events […]
[…] post 9/11 world, however, nobody cares and the book is just one more attack on the CIA, which has all but been supplanted in Washington by the Pentagon, which is not accountable to Congress for covert operations, and the rise of the private sector intelligence firms. Notes Author of Portrait of a Cold Warrior […]
[…] In his final paragraphs Van Wynsberghe adds Lobster and Alex Cox to his line-up of dupes and villains. Lobster ‘began running reports on psychic cliques in the Pentagon’. I did? Not quite. And poor old Cox ‘maintained that there was a fascist conspiracy in the U.S. security establishment to encourage belief in UFO’s’. He […]
[…] author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was a major piece of whistle-blowing as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and […]
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
[…] updated IRD, and ‘public diplomacy’ is a 1980s euphemism for disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan […]
[…] grew, and not just from the standpoint of the Navy. I was dispatched to the White House to brief President Eisenhower and to the bowels of the Pentagon to meet with Allen Dulles as the Navy representative.’ The Lugar report (see note 2) p.16. Lowenkron B.F. (2006) ‘The Essential Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in […]
