[…] resulted in the dreadful and misinforming Marina and Lee (London 1978). Another wrinkle in this is the fact that in the 1950s MacMillan was on the then Senator John Kennedy’s staff as an ‘expert’ on the Soviet Union. MacMillan’s husband, George MacMillan, is supposed to have spent the last decade writing a book about […]
[…] the assassination returned to the stage, some of them generated by the Garrison inquiry, none of which ultimately amount to much. Russell reports on the inquiry by Senator Schweiker and the House Investigation; interviews Gerry Hemmings; and the first HSCA director, Richard Sprague, on the politics of the HSCA; discusses the death of CIA […]
William C. Chasey ProMotion Publishing, 3368 F Governor Drive, Suite 144, San Diego, CA 92122, $19.95. ISBN 1-887314-01-6 Chasey was the foreign agent 4221, that is a lobbyist registered with the US Department of Justice, who took a PR contract from the government of Libya to try and help normalise relations with the U.S. after … Read more
[…] the West have any desire, much less possibility, of actually achieving a ‘solution’ in the Middle East. That Richard Perle was passing information to the Israelis from Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson’s office, where Paul Wolfowitz also worked, in the early 1970s, simply reinforces the idea that we are seeing a continuum of policy, a ‘long […]
[…] 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 […]
