[…] was further confirmed to me by yet another member of the AVIARY, Ron Pandolphi, PELICAN. Pandolphi is a PhD in physics and works at the Rocket and Missile section of the Office of the Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CIA. In his book, Out There, (37) the New York Times journalist Howard Blum […]
See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more
[…] all been under threat from new, sophisticated arrivals. Anything that damages the brand – supposedly offering alternative worlds and values – kills it. Those who lobbed the missile at its HQ in September – and the guilty are just as likely to be ‘competitor’ (including internal and/or ‘friendly’), as ‘enemy’, even if the attack […]
[…] Professor Lewis was the only Prosecution witness to give significant testimony on the ‘restricted’ document; and he claimed he could personally identify its use on Britain’s ALARM missile. Professor Lewis also claimed the document would enable an enemy to jam ALARM, which would put British lives at risk. He further claimed that Saddam Hussein […]
[…] are now revered, looked after and recycled as major tourist attractions. We are, of course, unlikely to see that happen to this collection of control towers, runways, missile pads, command posts, watchtowers and other assorted redundancies. But who would have thought back in 1962 that the then heavily defended Thor Missiles Main Base at […]
[…] Iraq, I was informed. Heavy casualties resulted. The operation, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was a counter-strike, following an Iraqi Scud that fell on Israel. The missile had contained Sarin. Fuming, the Israelis had prepared to detonate a nuclear warhead high above Baghdad. Only the swift intervention of President George Bush forestalled a […]
Back to the future: the USA, the UK and Iraq The US threatens to attack Iraq and is backed by the UK. There are objections in the UN Security Council from Russia and France. A large task force is assembled. Guess what happens next? Not a lot. There is a diplomatic crisis temporarily resolved after … Read more
‘Isn’t it true that when those poor devils stop suffering it is through a loss of what you call psyche?'(1) The psychotronics era The former Soviet Union had a long history of programmes in energetics and psycho-energetics technology, known to the West as psychotronics. Until recently, the bulk of the initial work on the science … Read more
[…] and thoroughly documented book is a history of the most important of those recent contests, from the debate in the 1970s over the scale of the Soviet missile ‘threat’ through to the invasion of Iraq.(2) Essentially, the CIA has been in an impossible position. Tasked with surveilling the entire planet, which can’t done, even […]
