[…] Newsweek. The resistance to his research he met among the editors and managers of both organisations leads into his second theme: the largely successful attempt by the Reagan administration to bully and/or sweet talk the US media into not looking too closely at what it was doing in the Middle East and Central America. […]
Colin Wallace On the Colin Wallace front, the big event since issue 17 has been Paul Foot’s book, Who Framed Colin Wallace? (Macmillan, 1989). With this book Paul Foot has re-researched and synthesised all the previous work and produced what is likely to remain the definitive account of Wallace’s biography, his allegations and – most […]
[…] Circle’s January 1980 meeting: in a follow-up meeting in June the same year, the Circle’s attention was turned towards the American Presidential election that was to bring Reagan to power. Minutes of the meeting of the Pinay Circle held on 28th and 29th June 1980 in Zurich. A further meeting of the Circle was […]
[…] September 1, was riveting. His voice occasionally breaking with emotion, Shultz declared, ‘The Soviets tracked the commercial airliner for some two and a half hours.’ President Ronald Reagan soon appeared to add, ‘This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts that guide human relations among people everywhere. It was an […]
[…] then as head of the CIA during the post Watergate period, notably the Team B episode which paved the way for the Second Cold War of the Reagan years. The October Surprise of 1980 and the media’s false ‘debunking’ of the story. The politicisation of the CIA under Reagan and Casey and the fabrication […]
[…] the negative aspects of satellite systems – their role in the US war-fighting infrastructure; their use in distorting defence estimates; the abuse of their data by the Reagan administration hawks to justify Cold War expenditure and rhetoric to the American public; and the severe difficulties the programme has run into after the detonation of […]
[…] trafficker and Contra supporter, had been released in the 1980s instead of now. Critics alleging a Contra-drug link would have been proven right, and the CIA’s and Reagan Administration’s routine denials exposed. The Contras might not have received another nickel. Thus the Administration, instead of arresting Meneses and Blandon, protected them. Later, Blandon became […]
[…] which are already pro-Western” and should, therefore, be supported. It’s the dream of ‘roll-back’ in the Third World. The British state and to a lesser extent the Reagan Administration – certainly the State Department – are wilfully backing the wrong horses. But there is slightly more to it than this, for Becker is creeping […]
[…] limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of […]
[…] were again welcome in Fiji. Later that year he became the first South Pacific head of state to get a full-scale red-carpet welcome at the White House. Reagan praised his “political courage” in allowing nuclear warships into Fiji. Secretary of State Shultz told him: “Your decision to restore access to United States naval vessels […]
