Secret history
Thanks to the internet, a flood of information has become publicly available that threatens to expose the subtext of modern history. Below is a handful of articles that challenge the conventional viewpoint & make for interesting/disturbing reading.
As usual, feel free to send in your fave links.
Big in Japan
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Yamashita’s Gold
Chalmers Johnson discusses Japanese war-booty that disappeared in the Philippines during WW2. -
Kamikaze Over Tokyo, Time 1976
“No one was particularly suspicious when Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo’s Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot’s uniform…” -
Yoshio Kodama
Who was Yoshio Kodama?
Operation Gladio
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Operation Gladio
Wikipedia article on Operation Gladio & the “stay behind armies”. -
Strategy of Tension
The Case of Italy by Claudio Celani.
American empire
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Family Jewels
A significant collection of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room. The collection widely known as the “Family Jewels” consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter. -
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
Interview with ex-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson.
Stumpled Upon some useful timelines to put things in context…
Cold War Timeline: http://www.timesearch.info/timesearch/default.asp?conid=timeline_byid&timelineid=314&viewtext=extended
Hope & Memory Timeline 1801-2004: http://adbusters.org/media/flash/hope_and_memory/timeline.swf