[…] of Mena? Another current source of conspiracy theories is the Clinton-Whitewater-Mena-drugs-cocaine-CIA-contra story. Are there Clinton buffs out there now following the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much of it is true. Mena, Contras, drugs in and guns out, Barry Seal, […]
[…] the Foreign Policy Centre had no previous connection. Twigg will be a welcome ally on Merseyside of old LFI friends and war backers Louise Ellman and Jane Kennedy. A band of brothers The tightness of the New Labour media and political circle was exemplified in the days following the November publication of the Independent […]
[…] ignorant of the things that have been done in Northern Ireland by the British state. As far as I am aware only Roger Faligot (see above) and Kennedy Lindsay have produced substantial accounts of some of the counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, and these fragments from Wallace and Holroyd serve to show that even […]
[…] British state? Oswald and ‘Oswald’ Michael Beschloss’s Taking Charge: the Johnson White House Tapes 1963-4 (Simon and Schuster, 1997) is an interesting read for many reasons, but Kennedy buffs will turn to the immediate post 22 November ’63 sections looking for insights. There is only one significant revelation that I can see. At 10 […]
[…] ‘Hilda Murrell?’ ‘Don’t want to go there!’ After a couple of minutes of this there weren’t many places where you would want to go; I think the Kennedy assassinations and the Wilson plots were still fair game, but that was more or less it. Anything which had been written about by anyone irrational or […]
The debate about whether the British should have a military presence East of Suez seemed to have been settled under the Wilson-Callaghan Government in the 1960s and 1970s. The process of withdrawal started with the independence of India and Pakistan (widely celebrated in the UK media recently on its sixtieth anniversary), was confirmed by the […]
[…] how to order it see the display ad in this issue. The Third Decade is a new journal devoted to the research into the assassination of President Kennedy. It is said occasionally that the JFK assassination research industry has long since turned into a fully-fledged academic subject with its own specialisms and sub-sets. This […]
[…] is reproduced in Emory’s new magazine Other Means. Like the book, Loftus’ interview is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. For example: ‘After Nixon’s narrow loss to Kennedy and the narrow loss of Dewey to Truman, Nixon was determined to mobilize his own political bloc. He was convinced that the American Jews had dollars, […]
[…] the multilateralists.’ (p. 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the […]
[…] structure and operational capabilities of the national security agencies wither away until the prospects have all but faded from view…’ JFK sources Two significant articles on the Kennedy assassination appeared in Probe. ‘Harvey and Lee: the case for two Oswalds’ by John Armstrong is split into two parts in Probe September-October and November-December 1997. […]
