From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine … Read more
[…] Pakistani military are keen to prove their innocence: on October 21st a senior Air Force officer, Air commodore Abbas Mirza, revealed that the investigation had ruled out missile attack or any structural fault on the C-130 Hercules, thus pointing to sabotage. (8) Any proof of foreign complicity in the crash will lead to questions […]
[…] This could be organised and executed by a small number of people. We could speculate further. Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon, say many: it was a missile or a smaller plane. Yet on the Net there is a report by Christopher Kelly from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which begins: ‘What […]
[…] is prepared to do – and also regards the process of actual analysis of overhead intelligence as a purely objective process, which the experience of the ‘ missile gap’ in the late 1950s contradicts. These objections made, if you can afford £14.95, the book is worth getting as it contains information available nowhere else […]
Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? – trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; … Read more
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00 I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book is … Read more
[PDF file]: […] sole discretion of the Cuban exiles – but it would be launched from outside the US and directed at Cuban targets only. The near-apocalypse of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) had made the Kennedy White House shy of taking any more potshots at the Soviet troops stationed 90 miles off Florida. On the […]
[…] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.71 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.72 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] the President that he must recognise that to accept a communist Cuba would raise ‘the question not only of American prestige but of American survival’.32 The Cuban Missile Crisis began its most dangerous phase later that month, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff echoing Clare’s invasion policy.33 After the Cuban crisis had receded, Allen […]
