Central Intelligence Agency
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Japan: War Criminal Dynasty and Moonies
Sbarrkum summarises a YouTube video alleging that the CIA backed Nobusuke Kishi and the LDP, used the Unification Church to move money, and later shifted to Turning Point USA. The…
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Pearls of Nonsense About Drones
Major Agha Humayun Amin reviews Christopher Fuller’s See It/Shoot It, a history of the CIA’s drone programme, as disappointing, arguing it adds nothing, rests on a questionable source, and wrongly…
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Review: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate: Covert Action and Internal Operations
A review, sent in by Major Agha Amin, of Owen Sirrs’s book on Pakistan’s ISI, setting out the questions the author asks about its evolution, relations with the CIA, abuse…
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Book Review: The ISI and Afghanistan
A critical review of an American adjunct professor’s book on the ISI, written after his Kabul stay, which the reviewer faults for relying on sources like Saleem Shahzad and Steve…
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Review: Directorate S
Major Amin reviews Steve Coll’s Directorate S and finds it deeply flawed, citing errors of geography and fact. He argues that US analysts overrated Al Qaeda while the real players…
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Review: Raiders of the China Coast
Reviewing Frank Holober’s memoir Raiders of the China Coast, about CIA-run guerrillas on Taiwanese-held islands, the reviewer finds it mostly a fond, nostalgic account of male bonding rather than a…
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Review: Directorate S: The CIA and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hamid Hussain reviews Steve Coll’s Directorate S as an excellent, mainly American-sourced account of the Af-Pak region, stressing that CIA-ISI relations were not black and white, that ISI is not…
