[…] of a store in Florida, 17 March 1964; Bill Hunter, journalist on the Long Beach Press Telegram, visited Ruby in gaol, was at Ruby’s apartment with George Senator and others in November 1963, shot dead in the Long Beach police department ‘accidentally,’ 24 April 1964; Warren Reynolds, witness to the Tippit slaying who said […]
[…] of the 1964 Who Killed Kennedy? Although Robert Kennedy’s public line was to support the Warren Commission verdict, privately he got a friend, Patrick Moynihan, later a senator, to make some inquiries about the event (which could amount to what, realistically?), some of which material found its way into the book. So we may […]
[…] 1950 to the armed forces of the Republic of China; and Lt. Col. Philip Corso, a 20-year veteran of Army intelligence (25) who went to work for Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) and once sued liberal columnist Drew Pearson for defamation.(26) Finally, the Honorary Grand Admiral of the SOJ is Admiral Sir Barry Domville, a […]
[…] bankers are still in control of the EU’s view of the financial sector. See . For a similar view applied to America taken by former US Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings go to . Hollings says, for example, ‘After six months of bail-outs and another trillion stimulation, there has been no “jump-start” to the economy. […]
This is a slightly abridged version of part of chapter four of Mark Curtis’s book The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Zed Press, 1995) reviewed below. In August 1953 a coup overthrew Iran’s nationalist government of Mohammed Musaddiq and installed the Shah in power. The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture … Read more
[…] the technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return”. Senator Frank Church on NSA’s Sigint technology. Steve Dorril Faligot’s book was withdrawn after threats of legal action but copies may still be knocking around, and it […]
James Jesus Angleton The CIA and the craft of counterintelligence Michael Holzman Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008, p/b, $28.95 Of all the figures in the Anglo-American spy world that we have been made aware of in the last 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing – … Read more
[…] Of either party. For example: Rush Limbaugh, who has become the Republican Party’s Goebbels, loudly applauded Clinton’s appointment of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, an appalling Texas (Democrat) senator who strongly supported the Nicaraguan contras. This seal of approval may explain why Radio Right, in its fury to denounce the Waco debacle, refused to go […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far … Read more
[…] Oliver Stone wave that I am aware of. Fonzi, early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker’s assassination sub-committee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to work and Fonzi began to work through false trails from Clare Booth Luce, Frank […]
