c.i.a.

Badass sentences I’d love to have appear in my obituary but am realistic enough to realize never will #347

From the obituary for Israeli spy chief David Kimche which appeared in the Sunday Times today… Read the rest of this entry »

MISCELLANEOUS AMUSING ITEMS I’VE COME ACROSS #16

At first, I though it said ‘CIA’… Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that CIE is a fascinating organisation too. Just not as fascinating maybe as the CIA. Read the rest of this entry »

JIM CORR: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE (PART DEUX)

Markham left an interesting comment here imagining a parallel universe in which Jim Corr’s sisters three sisters were “average-looking, tone-deaf munters.” I got to thinking about a different parallel universe, one in which the rest of us are woefully misguided, and Jim Corr and Charlie Sheen are the ones who know the truth. In which the Lisbon Treaty, 911, swine flu etc. really are all part of an extraordinarily elaborate plot to accomplish, erm… what exactly? Read the rest of this entry »

Published: Mongrel Magazine, July 2007

SOME LESSER-KNOWN C.I.A. PLOTS FROM THE ARCHIVES

Last month, CIA director Michael Hayden came clean about secret illegal activities it has engaged in down the years. The disclosure of this hitherto classified material, dubbed the CIA’s ‘Family Jewels’, was hotly anticipated in the press. But the 693-page document that emerged was something of a damp squib.

Here Eoin Butler trawls through the small print to highlight some of the agency’s less storied exploits… Read the rest of this entry »