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Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? by Daniel W B Lomas
[PDF file]: […] for much longer. Why was the purge here so restrained, compared to the situation in the United States, where even ‘Comrade Attlee’ was to be condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in […]
Kelly Bond 007 essay
[…] their real life counter-parts, including 007’s CIA associate Felix Leiter. Shakespeare goes to great lengths to describe how Fleming came to meet and have dinner with then Senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was recovering from back surgery he received a copy of Casino Royale from Marion Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown, Washington D.C. neighbour […]
View from the bridge
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
Faustian Bargains: Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace in the robber baron culture of Texas by Joan Mellen
[PDF file]: […] it is clear that Wallace got his security clearance over the objections of the security people. Presumably, though not demonstrably, this influence was coming from (the then) Senator Johnson. Why LBJ was doing all this for Wallace is unexplained. There is little on the Wallace-Johnson relationship: one suggestion from a journalist who was researching […]
View from the bridge
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
The Clandestine Caucus
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View from the bridge
[…] and the RFK assassination. This was his opening sentence. Sirhan Sirhan was standing right by Robert Kennedy on June 5, 1968, when he shot and killed the senator with a .22 revolver. The whole thing could have hardly been more clear-cut. Finkelstein has got the basics wrong: in fact Sirhan Sirhan wasn’t ‘standing right […]
A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11
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[PDF file]: […] dinner tab at the fundraiser in San Francisco L had arranged for the Contras after which L got a death threat over the phone while waiting in Senator Kerry’s outer office for a secret rendez-vous) and of what N told us — how Carlos was released from his hundred-year sentence to peddle cocaine to […]