[…] be Director of the CIA. Consider just one incident, the textual appropriations, displacements, and strategies that surround the inquiry into the 1981 attempt on the life of Pope John Paul II. Ten texts are involved. ‘Text No. 1 is a speech given by the Secretary of State Alexander Haig the day after President Reagan’s […]
[…] confidential briefings by the British spooks, I’m not sure you would be my idea of a ‘non-partisan reporter’, either. Papa! Kevin Koogan e-mailed me about the new Pope, Ratzinger, quoting the New York Times to the effect that Ratzinger had been brought to the Vatican Council at the age of 35 by Cardinal Joseph […]
[…] viewed TV slots and the most influential papers, they could also insist that no opposition views were aired alongside their own. Countless millions were fed ‘KGB shoots Pope’, while the acquittal of the Bulgarians last March was lucky to hit the back pages. The real plot against the Pope – by Ali Agca and […]
The latest global ‘celeb’: Pope Francis Corinne Souza I am always puzzled as to why UK/US journalists fail to cover global religions in terms of their actual or potential political impact, when religion is a huge political force. All clerics, Christian, Jewish, Muslim and so on, can and do influence their publics, many are […]
[…] Times (9 September 1984) claiming that Licio Gelli escaped from Switzerland using papers forged for him in Argentina. One other aspect of the confusing jigsaw surrounding the Pope shooting is the claim by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) that KINTEX, the Bulgarian state trading agency and alleged cover for Bulgarian intelligence, has been […]
[…] review in Lobster 37) chapter 16. The other is a section of chapter 10 of Alistair McAlpine’s memoir Once a Jolly Bagman.(11) 2: the KGB shot the Pope One of the most successful major scale disinformation projects since Lobster was begun has been the KGB-shot-the-Pope story created by Brian Crozier’s chums in the CIA. […]
[…] old mine marked on the map just a few hundred yards from the ruin. In the late 19th century Leo Taxil conned a massive reading public and Pope Leo XIII into believing his wild tales of a Masonic/Satanist body called the Palladium. Eventually he told a massive religious rally in Paris that he’d fabricated […]
[…] His problem, common amongst top politicians, was his wish to be held in the highest regard by posterity. There is a revealing anecdote of LBJ meeting the Pope. Where the Pope gave him something of established historical value, a 14th century oil painting, the Pope got a plastic bust of LBJ. LBJ’s generosity was […]
[…] politics during the Red Brigades/strategy of tension years (Lobster 31 et seq) and then an important figure in the Reagan years from the assassination attempt on the Pope in 1981 (see below) through to Iran-Contra, Ledeen is now plying in support of the Israeli cause from his base at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) […]
[…] a major Soviet agent in funding and encouraging world terrorism. The minor theme is, of course, that the Soviet Union was behind the attempted assassination of the Pope. But covertly the important theme – and presumably the point of the exercise for the Israeli state – is that the PLO is simply a terrorist […]
