[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] examples on the Net, 31 ‘Case Study 2’ (see note 16) periods of drought or storm’,3 2 about which the Vietnamese knew all too well. After the Pentagon Papers leak, Seymour Hersh revealed in the New York Times that America had been manipulating the weather in Vietnam in order to cause floods. The project […]
[…] also claimed the land and opposed the move. DEMOGRAPHICS OF HISTORIC PALESTINE PRIOR TO 1948 https://www.cjpme.org/fs_007 https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/leaked-chinese-documentreveals-a-sinister-plan-to-unleash-coronaviruses/news-story/ 53674e8108ad5a655e07e990daa85465 https://www.rt.com/russia/523956-regime-change-belarus-prank/ NED blown by prank call. Big stuff. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9536053/Pentagon-whistleblowerwarns-UFO-intelligence-failure-level-9-11.html Pentagon whistleblower warns that report on military sightings of UFOs could reveal US has been ‘leapfrogged technologically by a foreign adversary’ in intelligence failure ‘on par with […]
[PDF file]: […] to those of the Middle East, further emphasizing the continent’s strategic importance.’1 Unlike its mega-embassies and military bases in Iraq, Kosovo, and other strategically important locations, the Pentagon has smaller, mobile bases across Africa. The Congressional report tells us that these ‘facilities as “lily pads”, or Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs), and access to locations […]
[…] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every […]
[PDF file]: […] – the ‘ideological paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a […]
