[…] deal with corruption and ineptitude. In their mission, they operate with minimal democratic accountability as their trans-national operations bring them into ever closer association with security and intelligence services with whom they increasingly share the same ideology of global threat. They are, in short, constructing the basis for the new European, indeed ‘Western’, Security […]
[…] of new material on the assassination of the sixties and related events. It contains pieces on William Pepper’s excellent book Orders to Kill (reviewed above); Garrison; military intelligence in Dallas; Cuban intelligence and JFK – the Cubans’ viewpoint; a report on the Coalition’s annual conference; updates on material generated by FOIA requests and by […]
[…] member of the American Psychological Association’s taskforce on psychologists’ involvement in interrogations and she’s recently gone public about some of the confidential discussions with the military and intelligence people involved in the taskforce ……. ’(1) But there are other Arrigos; Jean Maria is one of three sisters. There is a Dr. Sue Arrigo, who […]
[…] Henry (Scoop) Jackson, Paul Nitze (Coalition for a Democratic Majority) (CDM); ideologues like Rostow and Podhoretz (the latter editor of the ‘neo-conservative’ Commentary); hardline dissenters in the intelligence community such as Daniel Graham (ex head DIA) who is ECUD Chairman; and the grass roots New Right symbolised by Weyrich. The CSFC and CDM worked […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counter intelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the […]
[…] did not. If I underscore his homosexuality it is to emphasize the compartmentalisation of his life, a trait that would be valuable for anyone with connection to intelligence operations. In 1977 a CIA memo surfaced dated 28th September 1967 and headed ‘Garrison Investigation: Queries from Justice Department’. This said that between 1949 and 1956 […]
[…] source is the 1948 interrogation of Henrich Muller published in 1995 by R. J. Bender of San Jose, CA., a well-known militaria publisher. Muller was the German intelligence officer in charge of anti-Soviet operations and the material about the Soviet Union in the conversation was forwarded to him. At the end of the war, […]
[…] MA; Professor of Politics and Comparative Ideologies, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Dr Alan Sabrosky PhD MA The Duke of St Albans OBE Former Colonel in Intelligence T F Utley CBE Dr M H Waring PhD MA (Brazil) Norris McWhirter Now in charge of the resources generated by Guinness Book of Records, McWhirter […]
Douglas Macleod Edinburgh: Birlinn; £9.99, p/b Twenty years ago, before the current torrent of information about ‘the secret world of intelligence’, we were scratching about looking for clues to our secret history. One was given in the John Loftus book The Belarus Secret (Penguin 1983) which contained a single reference to the Scottish […]
[…] evidence, though I do intend pursuing it further. Obviously such a shadowy company is open to all kinds of theories. It could have been used for economic intelligence, as suggested by Shaw. Equally, it could have been used to finance politicians. But where is the evidence for any of that? If there is such […]
