Michael Scheuer is a pure product of the CIA. A career operations officer, he ran the first agency task force that hunted Osama bin Laden. He authored the agency’s rendition program, which kidnapped suspected terrorists (and sometimes innocent people) and tortured them. He combined a deep knowledge of Islamic jihadist movements with a willingness to...
Author: Jefferson Morley (Jefferson Morley)
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U.S. Generals and Conservatives Opposed Nuclear Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
With the approaching 75th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, I reached for my grandfather’s memoirs, For the Record. In August 1945, Felix Morley was the former editor of the Washington Post who had founded a publication called Human Events, a journal of conservative and libertarian thought. He recalled that the end of World...
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The Politics of the Five Eyes
[Inside the Five Eyes series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3| Part 4 is below] The global Five Eyes signals intelligence network is now woven, almost invisibly, into the policy and politics of the English-speaking world. Its leaders are almost never seen in public. The first time that representatives of all five partners of...
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The End of the Affair: JFK and Mary Meyer
“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the New Journalists adopted the techniques of novelists to spice up their reporting. Author Jesse Kornbluth offers a 21st century variation. He imports the apparatus of academia to give ballast to the true tale of a...
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Japan’s NHK: Oswald in the Eyes of the CIA
Along with former CIA officer Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, I was interviewed extensively for this two-part show on NHK Prime, a magazine show on Japan’s leading television network. Here’s how NHK presents our findings about the CIA and accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.