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 […]
[…] administration” as saying that “this kind of unit had been discussed at the Pentagon for a long time, but no decision was made on it until the Reagan administration took over.” The same article suggests that the impetus for ISA’s formation came from Robert Stilwell, Dep.Under Secretary of Defence, in 1981. Same report states […]
[…] $20 billion dollars in losses…’ ‘Well, there was no ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in […]
[…] Israel for many years and evidently had been in the loop as Ghorbanifar’s backer from the very beginning. Ghorbanifar could never have caused such embarrassment to the Reagan Administration if he had not been backed by deeper, hidden forces. By the “Russian 9/11” I mean the bombings of Russian apartment buildings in 1999, accompanied […]
[…] Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, was the Reagan administration’s prime channel to Israel on matters regarding the Contras. Former Noriega aide, Jose Blandon, testifying to Senator John Kerry’s subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International […]
[…] add this: Stich has collected together many of the conspiracy theories, bits of research and allegations on the U.S. political and intelligence fringe since the arrival Ronald Reagan. Some of these fragments are more convincing than others; all are interesting. A better starting place for the study of the darker side of recent U.S. […]
[…] time a group of Republican businessmen in California sought a viable candidate, they chose someone you would buy a used car from, the B list actor Ronald Reagan. The outpouring of uncritical praise following his recent death merely confirmed the triumph of his image over reality. In the last Presidential election, Al Gore was […]
[…] US) reports, the JOIA (Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency) would change the reports.” Date-line Washington: anti-Semitism and the airwaves Lars-Erik Nelson in Foreign Policy No.65, Winter 1986 Since Reagan took office Radio Liberty, the US-funded anti-Soviet radio station based in Munich, has become increasingly anti-Semitic. Emigre groups, especially Ukrainians, are being allowed to broadcast their […]
