[…] agencies do their best to bring only good news. (Which is usually inaccurate.) About the only interesting sections in this piece are those describing the way the Reagan administration has taken the logical step of trying to get the intelligence agencies to produce ‘proof’ of their various conspiracy theories about the world. The logic […]
[…] to persuade US Congressmen to lift the Section 907 ban on Azerbaijan (noted above); and (2) George Shultz (ex-President of Bechtel Group and ex-Secretary of State under Reagan), while on tour trying to persuade Azerbaijan to adopt a gas pipeline project, went so far as to refer to President Heydar Aliyev as Azerbaijan’s ‘George […]
[…] Sarah Tisdall going to jail after she leaked confidential documents to The Guardian. Many at the time – the height of the renewed Cold War under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher – thought the editor of The Guardian would resign, a course of action over failure in civic duty his newspaper’s leading articles have […]
[…] So poor was the output of these disinformation programmes (a couple of examples are reprinted in this volume) that a tape recording in which the voices of Reagan and Thatcher had been edited together to apparently show them discussing a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union was attributed to the KGB. In the event […]
[…] Alpha 66 and Omega 7 – employed Mark Chapman, assassin of John Lennon – on World Vision’s board is John Hinkley Snr, father of attempted assassin of Reagan, John Hinkley Jnr. Judge suggests that World Vision is ‘an elaborate cover for the recruitment, training and placement of assassins world-wide.’ Well, maybe. Other explanations are […]
Introduction I began writing this in the early 1980s. If you were then reading the Guardian or the Observer, and knew a little, simple economics, it didn’t take genius to notice that while the UK’s manufacturing economy was being decimated by Conservative Party economic policy, the City of London was booming. More interestingly, and less […]
[…] Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations for many years. It would not be until the advent of the current Pope, John Paul II, and the coming to power of Reagan and Thatcher, that the concerted roll-back of communism was pursued in much the way that the Intermarium exiles, Peron, Skorzeny, Durcansky, Pavelic, Horthy etc. would have […]
[…] that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It was. This is centrally an account of some of the bureaucratic struggles inside the CIA during the Reagan years when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to […]
[…] of much of the American Right. But that’s been done already. How often do we need to be told of the idiocies of Jerry Falwell and Ronald Reagan, the cynicism of Karl Rove, or the horrors of consumerism as a way of life? Reading this I kept thinking, OK, but we know all this. […]
Covert Action CAIB trundles on. I haven’t always agreed with CAIB’s line. With others on the U.S. left, it used to seem reluctant to deal with the real nature of the Soviet Union. Having got to he point where America has become Amerika, many American radicals have been unable to acknowledge that the other Superpower […]
