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Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
[…] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]
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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]
The view from the bridge
[…] membership secretary of most left/peace groups in a few months simply because nobody wants to do those chores. The late Harry Newton, for example, an MI5-Special Branch agent, became the treasurer of the Institute of Workers Control. Newton is also said to have ‘penetrated’ CND headquarters.3 On the one occasion I visited the headquarters […]
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]
View from Bridge
[…] Leonnig reported in her recent book on the Secret Service the person who was telling JAMES ROWLEY what to do was Rufus Youngblood, the personal Secret Service agent for President Lyndon Johnson. LBJ, Youngblood and Rowley all had to know about Abraham Bolden and why he was such a threat to the cover up […]
The View from the Bridge
[…] ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these claims in […]
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Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet
[PDF file]: […] an area known as the Black Section, though, apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts […]