[…] this recent book, Noguchi systematically demolishes the Sirhan-as-lone-assassin thesis and then, in the final pages, cops out. “My own professional instinct instructs me that Sirhan somehow killed Senator Kennedy alone..’ …. (although “the existence of a second gunman remains a ‘possibility’).” This, despite “scientific evidence of soot and divergent bullet angles, and a host […]
Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99 On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred ‘to … Read more
Mandy’s place in things On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal. The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked except … Read more
[…] Bulletin No 22. CAIB is available through Housman’s in London. A reasonable (ie reasonable for a British journal) piece on Reagan’s backer and friend Paul Laxalt ( Senator for Nevada and Chair of the Republican National Committee) and his links with organised crime (Nevada contains Las Vegas) in Tribune August 31 1984 A much […]
[…] book was first published in 1967 and remains the best single critique of the Warren Commission and Report. An essential book for every JFK student. Preface by Senator Richard S. Schweiker; introduction by Peter Dale Scott. A well-produced, large format paperback reissue. Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue and the Struggle for […]
[…] 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 […]
Just ten years ago the issues were so simple, the arguments so clean. The concept of hackers was cute and quaint, best understood through Hollywood thrillers like ‘War Games.’ The major media had yet to use the word ‘cyberspace,’ a term just then created by William Gibson in Neuromancer, his first masterpiece in a strange … Read more
Thanks to Terry Hanstock and Ian Tresman for contributions. Contributions, comments and info welcome. – My email address is Electronic Privacy/ECHELON The importance of taking advantage of the current debate about Echelon summarised by Nicky Hager: ‘…the lack of serious debate can protect the intelligence agencies from political accountability and control…..it is probably the … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] this instance. Perhaps more disturbing is Porter’s admission that, ‘…for reasons of cock-up, not conspiracy’, BBC World no longer has the original tapes of its 9/11 coverage.(29) Senator John Kerry also entered the fray when he said that WTC 7 was brought down by a controlled demolition, although he qualified this by pointing out […]
