Ivan Molloy London: Pluto Press, 2001, £18.99/£55 In the 1980s the resurgent US military and neo-conservatives were in a bind: faced with a variety of challenges to the American economic empire, the enormous military power they possessed was constrained by PR considerations; American parents who didn’t want their children dying abroad (the so-called ‘Vietnam … Read more
George McT. Kahin London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, £17.95, p/b The late George Kahin was a pioneering US scholar of Southeast Asia in the post WW2 era. This memoir describes some of his travels in the 1945-70 period, when he behaved rather like a CIA officer (for which he was occasionally mistaken), talking to the rising … Read more
Robin Ramsay Often referred to in other things is Israeli Foreign Affairs, ‘an independent monthly report on Israel’s diplomatic and military activities world-wide’. It is 8 pages A4 and though this is not a subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian … Read more
Patriots not sneaks After a year of New Labour I feel beholden to write something on this subject, but what is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs … Read more
[PDF file]: […] “suitably grateful” for the DeMotte and other “fine stories” which Bennett had been “feeding” Woodward; and also an arrangement between Bennett and attorney Edward Bennett Williams to “kill off” revelations of the CIA’s relationship to Bennett’s agency, the Mullen Company. Edward Bennett Williams, the lawyer who previously had done work for the CIA with […]
[PDF file]: […] Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or persons connected with them in the early 80s. The main narrative runs to 417 […]
[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]
[…] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] the subject was sparked by an anonymous former Warren Commission attorney who complained that they were not given the full facts, especially about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro.3 Although a great deal was kept from the Warren Commission, Shenon believes they got it right: the president was killed by one […]
