Only as an independent film, Netflix might run it - there's plenty up there that would include Amazon Prime, too, which promoted Showtime's acquisition of JFK Revisited.
"Not available currently in your location," fine, I took the free trial month of Showtime just to watch it, now I have it in an expanded version on DVD, also.
Thanks John, one important thing that Bush did as CIA director was allow the Team B exercise, which was a key point in the development of neoconservatism.
One point not made here is the role of another powerful Washington insider, Goerge H. W. Bush.
In 1975 then CIA Director William Colby's cooperation with the Church Committee alienated many within the White House as well as the Intelligence Establishment. So much that under pressure from Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheyney and others in his administration, Ford fired Colby in what was known as the "Halloween massacre."
According to researcher Russ Baker, the push for making GHW Bush CIA director came from many individuals within the National Security Establishment, but particularly from disgraced former President Richard Nixon, a longtime friend and ally of Bush.
On the surface, Bush appeared to be an outsider with no links to the Agency or any of its assets.
However, later research appears to dispute this claim. Later research has shown GHW Bush's connection to a number of individuals with CIA connections concerning his offshore drilling firm, Zapata Oil. It's also an interesting coincidence to note that the Bay of Pigs landing was code named " Operation Zapata." Most importantly, during the 1988 election year, a declassified memo appeared describing FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefing a "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" concerning the reaction of the Anto Castro Cubans on the assassination of JFK.
During Bush's confirmation hearings, a CIA Officer by the name of Richard Welch, the Station Chief in Athens, Greece, was murdered. Though there was no evidence to prove this, the National Security establishment placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Congressional hearings and
the revelations of CIA misconduct. This then gave the White House the leverage it needed to get Bush confirmed.
Once at the CIA, GHW Bush immediately acted to deflect any further attacks of the Agency. While he did not overtly participate in operations matters, his role was more political, running damage control and defending the CIA from criticism and scandal. In addition, he stymied the then ongoing investigations into the assassinations of JFK and RFK. And of all past Presidents, GHW Bush was the most vocal and adamant in his defense of the Warren Commission and his denunciation of so-called "Conspiracy Theories."
After Jimmy Carter's election, Bush lobbied to continue his tenure as director, but was instead replaced by Admiral Stansfield Turner. In spite of this, upon his departure, George Herbert Walker Bush was so highly regarded that in the 1990s the entire CIA office complex was renamed after him. A rare honor for a so-called "Outsider." Indeed, he is claimed by many in the Intelligence Community as the man who saved the Central Intelligence Agency's very existence.
With this as an example, it appears the Angleton legacy started immediately after the man himself left his office.
According to author John M. Newman in his 2022 book, "Uncovering Popov's Mole," Angleton was under the control of a KGB "mole" by the name of Bruce Solie in the mole-hunting Office of Security.
I'm not familiar with the book, but I will make a note of it as I'd like to do a page on the Office of Security at some stage. The only similar theory I'm aware of is Clare Petty's about which I'm sceptical, although it does have a certain logic.
Petty temporarily mistakenly thought "Pete" Bagley in the Soviet division was a "mole" because he didn't realize Goleniewski ("Sniper") had been high up enough in Polish intelligence to be privy to a recruitment letter Bagley had sent to another Polish intelligence officer which that officer had turned in to his service.
As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil.
The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a C.I.A. informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Mr. Putin’s campaign of targeted assassinations. It also signaled a dangerous low point even between intelligence services that have long had a strained history.
“The red lines are long gone for Putin,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former C.I.A. officer who oversaw operations in Europe and Russia. “He wants all these guys dead.”
***** A subsequent passage "prettifies" an infamous assassination by the KGB many years ago:
The bid to assassinate Mr. Poteyev is revealed in the British edition of the book “Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West,” to be published by an imprint of Little, Brown on June 29. The book is by Calder Walton, a scholar of national security and intelligence at Harvard. The New York Times independently confirmed his work and is reporting for the first time on the bitter fallout from the operation, including the retaliatory measures that ensued once it came to light.
According to Mr. Walton’s book, a Kremlin official asserted that a hit man, or a Mercader, would almost certainly hunt down Mr. Poteyev. Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin’s, slipped into Leon Trotsky’s study in Mexico City in 1940 and sank an ice ax into his head. Based on interviews with two American intelligence officials, Mr. Walton concluded the operation was the beginning of “a modern-day Mercader” sent to assassinate Mr. Poteyev. *****
"Trotsky had been the subject of an armed attack against his house, mounted by allegedly Soviet-recruited locals, including the Marxist-Leninist muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.[9] The attack was organised and prepared by Pavel Sudoplatov, deputy director of the foreign department of the NKVD. In his memoirs, Sudoplatov claimed that, in March 1939, he had been taken by his chief, Lavrentiy Beria, to see Stalin. Stalin told them that "if Trotsky is finished the threat will be eliminated" and gave the order that "Trotsky should be eliminated within a year."[9]
After that attack failed, a second team was sent, headed by Eitingon, formerly the deputy GPU agent in Spain. He allegedly was involved in the kidnap, torture, and murder of Andreu Nin. The new plan was to send a lone assassin against Trotsky. The team included Mercader and his mother Caridad.[9] Sudoplatov claimed in his autobiography Special Tasks that he selected Ramón Mercader for the task of carrying out the assassination.[10]
Through his lover Sylvia Ageloff's access to the Coyoacán house, Mercader, as Jacson, began to meet with Trotsky, posing as a sympathizer to his ideas, befriending his guards, and doing small favors. He made drawings of the villa to help the other groups of assassins. Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov, aged 14 at the time of the assassination, emphasized that Jacson had been present in Trotsky's house during the first attack led by Siqueiros.[11]
On 20 August 1940, Mercader was alone with Trotsky in his study under the pretext of showing the older man a document. Mercader struck Trotsky from behind and mortally wounded him on the head with an ice axe while he was looking at the document.[12]
The blow failed to kill Trotsky, and he got up and grappled with Mercader. Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's guards burst into the room and beat Mercader nearly to death. Trotsky, deeply wounded but still conscious, ordered them to spare his attacker's life and let him speak.[13]"
Nothing in the NY TIMES mention of Mercader explaining Mercader set the assassination up by falsely "befriending" Trotsky and his family, or the presence of Trotsky's grandchild and the danger posed to his life , just the final attack, much less Trotsky ordering his guards to "spare the attacker's life and let him speak."
"What if there is a CIA within the CIA?" - Joe Turner, Three Days of the Condor
(A film that could never get made today in spook worshipping Hollowood)
Only as an independent film, Netflix might run it - there's plenty up there that would include Amazon Prime, too, which promoted Showtime's acquisition of JFK Revisited.
www.primevideo.com/detail/JFK-Revisited-Through-the-Looking-Glass/0TONLTZ7QJ1I71JH3CA3HH3BSI
"Not available currently in your location," fine, I took the free trial month of Showtime just to watch it, now I have it in an expanded version on DVD, also.
Thanks John, one important thing that Bush did as CIA director was allow the Team B exercise, which was a key point in the development of neoconservatism.
One point not made here is the role of another powerful Washington insider, Goerge H. W. Bush.
In 1975 then CIA Director William Colby's cooperation with the Church Committee alienated many within the White House as well as the Intelligence Establishment. So much that under pressure from Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheyney and others in his administration, Ford fired Colby in what was known as the "Halloween massacre."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Massacre
According to researcher Russ Baker, the push for making GHW Bush CIA director came from many individuals within the National Security Establishment, but particularly from disgraced former President Richard Nixon, a longtime friend and ally of Bush.
On the surface, Bush appeared to be an outsider with no links to the Agency or any of its assets.
However, later research appears to dispute this claim. Later research has shown GHW Bush's connection to a number of individuals with CIA connections concerning his offshore drilling firm, Zapata Oil. It's also an interesting coincidence to note that the Bay of Pigs landing was code named " Operation Zapata." Most importantly, during the 1988 election year, a declassified memo appeared describing FBI Director J Edgar Hoover briefing a "Mr. George Bush of the CIA" concerning the reaction of the Anto Castro Cubans on the assassination of JFK.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/james-huang/george-h-w-bush-of-the-cia/
During Bush's confirmation hearings, a CIA Officer by the name of Richard Welch, the Station Chief in Athens, Greece, was murdered. Though there was no evidence to prove this, the National Security establishment placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of the Congressional hearings and
the revelations of CIA misconduct. This then gave the White House the leverage it needed to get Bush confirmed.
https://theintercept.com/2018/12/08/george-hw-bush-cia-director/
Once at the CIA, GHW Bush immediately acted to deflect any further attacks of the Agency. While he did not overtly participate in operations matters, his role was more political, running damage control and defending the CIA from criticism and scandal. In addition, he stymied the then ongoing investigations into the assassinations of JFK and RFK. And of all past Presidents, GHW Bush was the most vocal and adamant in his defense of the Warren Commission and his denunciation of so-called "Conspiracy Theories."
https://www.salon.com/2019/01/25/the-real-reason-the-cia-loved-george-h-w-bush_partner/
After Jimmy Carter's election, Bush lobbied to continue his tenure as director, but was instead replaced by Admiral Stansfield Turner. In spite of this, upon his departure, George Herbert Walker Bush was so highly regarded that in the 1990s the entire CIA office complex was renamed after him. A rare honor for a so-called "Outsider." Indeed, he is claimed by many in the Intelligence Community as the man who saved the Central Intelligence Agency's very existence.
With this as an example, it appears the Angleton legacy started immediately after the man himself left his office.
According to author John M. Newman in his 2022 book, "Uncovering Popov's Mole," Angleton was under the control of a KGB "mole" by the name of Bruce Solie in the mole-hunting Office of Security.
I'm not familiar with the book, but I will make a note of it as I'd like to do a page on the Office of Security at some stage. The only similar theory I'm aware of is Clare Petty's about which I'm sceptical, although it does have a certain logic.
Petty temporarily mistakenly thought "Pete" Bagley in the Soviet division was a "mole" because he didn't realize Goleniewski ("Sniper") had been high up enough in Polish intelligence to be privy to a recruitment letter Bagley had sent to another Polish intelligence officer which that officer had turned in to his service.
www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/us/politics/russia-spy-assassination.html
June 19, 2023, 3:00 a.m. ET
As President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil.
The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a C.I.A. informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Mr. Putin’s campaign of targeted assassinations. It also signaled a dangerous low point even between intelligence services that have long had a strained history.
“The red lines are long gone for Putin,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, a former C.I.A. officer who oversaw operations in Europe and Russia. “He wants all these guys dead.”
***** A subsequent passage "prettifies" an infamous assassination by the KGB many years ago:
The bid to assassinate Mr. Poteyev is revealed in the British edition of the book “Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West,” to be published by an imprint of Little, Brown on June 29. The book is by Calder Walton, a scholar of national security and intelligence at Harvard. The New York Times independently confirmed his work and is reporting for the first time on the bitter fallout from the operation, including the retaliatory measures that ensued once it came to light.
According to Mr. Walton’s book, a Kremlin official asserted that a hit man, or a Mercader, would almost certainly hunt down Mr. Poteyev. Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin’s, slipped into Leon Trotsky’s study in Mexico City in 1940 and sank an ice ax into his head. Based on interviews with two American intelligence officials, Mr. Walton concluded the operation was the beginning of “a modern-day Mercader” sent to assassinate Mr. Poteyev. *****
"Trotsky had been the subject of an armed attack against his house, mounted by allegedly Soviet-recruited locals, including the Marxist-Leninist muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros.[9] The attack was organised and prepared by Pavel Sudoplatov, deputy director of the foreign department of the NKVD. In his memoirs, Sudoplatov claimed that, in March 1939, he had been taken by his chief, Lavrentiy Beria, to see Stalin. Stalin told them that "if Trotsky is finished the threat will be eliminated" and gave the order that "Trotsky should be eliminated within a year."[9]
After that attack failed, a second team was sent, headed by Eitingon, formerly the deputy GPU agent in Spain. He allegedly was involved in the kidnap, torture, and murder of Andreu Nin. The new plan was to send a lone assassin against Trotsky. The team included Mercader and his mother Caridad.[9] Sudoplatov claimed in his autobiography Special Tasks that he selected Ramón Mercader for the task of carrying out the assassination.[10]
Through his lover Sylvia Ageloff's access to the Coyoacán house, Mercader, as Jacson, began to meet with Trotsky, posing as a sympathizer to his ideas, befriending his guards, and doing small favors. He made drawings of the villa to help the other groups of assassins. Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov, aged 14 at the time of the assassination, emphasized that Jacson had been present in Trotsky's house during the first attack led by Siqueiros.[11]
On 20 August 1940, Mercader was alone with Trotsky in his study under the pretext of showing the older man a document. Mercader struck Trotsky from behind and mortally wounded him on the head with an ice axe while he was looking at the document.[12]
The blow failed to kill Trotsky, and he got up and grappled with Mercader. Hearing the commotion, Trotsky's guards burst into the room and beat Mercader nearly to death. Trotsky, deeply wounded but still conscious, ordered them to spare his attacker's life and let him speak.[13]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramón_Mercader
Nothing in the NY TIMES mention of Mercader explaining Mercader set the assassination up by falsely "befriending" Trotsky and his family, or the presence of Trotsky's grandchild and the danger posed to his life , just the final attack, much less Trotsky ordering his guards to "spare the attacker's life and let him speak."