[…] CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was the focal point of demands within the Democratic Party that the Agency should be more accountable to the politicians.29 Now, with Welch’s […]
[…] CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was the focal point of demands within the Democratic Party that the Agency should be more accountable to the politicians.16 Now, with Welch’s […]
[PDF file]: […] the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. It was hardly a deliberate act of self–‘sheepdipping’, because RFK was indeed vehemently opposed to Communism. In any case Senator Joseph McCarthy was a family friend who had given RFK the role as a favour. But while this moment on the political centre-stage of the anxious […]
[PDF file]: […] a Labour government in place with a working majority until 2011-2012. Brown – who in Mattinson’s account is surrounded by US advisers and even calls an ailing Senator Edward Kennedy at one point to ask if a general election should be called in the UK – decided against an autumn 2007 general election.2 2 […]
[PDF file]: […] attempted to make public related to Nixon’s sabotage of the Paris peace talks held in late 1968, while Nixon was running for the presidency against Democratic challenger Senator Hubert Humphrey. Dr Kissinger’s breach of confidence – essentially betraying another traitor – unlocks the dark heart of the entire Watergate scandal. At the centre of […]
[PDF file]: […] See his Guardian obituary, 3 January 2006. 46 Summer 2010 Pierson acted as a banker.1 5 Langford was also closely connected to, and a key supporter of, Senator John Tower (Texas-Republican). Tower served in the US Navy between 1943 and 1946 and remained an active member of the US Navy Reserve until 1990. During […]
