The tag 'CIA' is associated with 377 posts.

Sirhan Sirhan and the “Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress”

Hyp­not­i­cally regressed, Sirhan Sirhan–patsy in the RFK assassination–recalls vivid details about the “girl in the polka-dot dress.” Numer­ous eye­wit­nesses heard her remark that “we” killed Kennedy.


FTR #740 Update on the Meltdown Part 6: The Wachovia File

Wachovia deeply involved with laun­der­ing money for Sinaloa car­tel; firm’s exec­u­tives com­plicit with cover-up; World’s major finan­cial insti­tu­tions depen­dent on drug car­tels for liq­uid­ity? Drug smug­glers may have bailed out those insti­tu­tions fol­low­ing crash of ’08.


Does Goldman Sachs Chief Lloyd Blankfein Enjoy Connections to the Intelligence Community?

Gold­man Sachs CEO Lloyd Blank­fein worked for the old law firm of OSS chief William Dono­van. Are Blank­fein, Gold­man Sachs involved with the intel­li­gence community?


Confirmation of U.S. Support for Egyptian, Mideast Uprisings

News reports out of Mid­dle East con­firm U.S. sup­port for the sup­pos­edly “spon­ta­neous” Mid­dle East uprisings.


FTR #738 Turkish Taffy, Part II

Assur­ances to the con­trary notwith­stand­ing, Mus­lim Broth­er­hood poised to ascend in Egypt; Shed­ding the West’s old auto­crats in the Mid­dle East may ben­e­fit al-Qaeda; Obama poised for polit­i­cal destruc­tion over these events.


Was the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Behind Keith Olbermann’s Sign Off?

Did the ultra-reactionary Com­cast firm’s takeover of NBC Uni­ver­sal cause Keith Olbermann’s sign off? Comcast’s roots go back to Rea­gan CIA direc­tor William Casey.


Now, About Jared [Lee] Laughner . . .

Shooter of Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gif­fords and slayer of fed­eral judge, Jared Lee Laugh­ner was no lone nut. Influ­enced by far-right and by ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the Truther move­ment. More shoot­ers appar­ently involved.


“Somewhere . . . Beyond the Sea . . . ” (Apologies to Bobby Darin)

Seek­ing to escape the ruin they are vis­it­ing on our soci­ety, super-rich are look­ing to sea and space colonies to escape social appoca­lypse. Face­book financier Peter Thiel (“Free­dom and democ­racy are mutu­ally exclu­sive”) behind it.


FTR #731 Interview with John Loftus about “America’s Nazi Secret”

Con­spir­a­to­r­ial process on a mas­sive scale pro­duced fas­cism, World War II; eco­nom­i­cally empow­ered by the Webb-Pomerene Act, the back­ers of the Axis col­lab­o­rated with Wall Street’s Rob­ber Barons before, dur­ing and after the war. State and Jus­tice Depart­ments complicit.


FTR #730 Interview with Russ Baker (Author of “Family of Secrets”)

Break­ing jour­nal­is­tic taboos about the JFK assas­si­na­tion, Russ Baker por­trays the real­ity of Amer­i­can power pol­i­tics, as exem­pli­fied by the Bush family’s use of covert action to manip­u­late the United States and its citizens.