[…] might have survived without is ‘MI5, 1909-1945: an information management perspective’ by Black and Brunt in the Journal of Information Sciences, 26 (3) 2000. What next, the Kennedy assassination: a catering perspective? On the other hand, an article which could have used a lot of expansion was ‘The Labour Party spies……..Stella’s last State Secret’ […]
[…] confined location and under medical supervision.) Austin LaRocque and Charles Dyer, both former students at the Fernald State School, told a panel headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative Edward Merkey that at that time they could not read or write and the researchers failed to obtain the full consent of them or […]
[…] doesn’t take the story back to the 1960s but the Walton book, Brothers, reviewed above, shows that the struggle between the Pentagon and civil America dominated the Kennedy Presidency; and it now looks entirely plausible to view post-war American history as centred around the problem created by the successful ending of the American depression […]
[…] It made little mention of INLA. Mrs Thatcher was apparently appalled by the disparity of reports she received on intelligence in Northern Ireland. (British Intelligence in Action, Kennedy Lindsay) “British intelligence officers met their contacts and talked … all were to report later that night to their controller that nothing was known.” (Harry’s Game) […]
[…] to read the available literature on the subject. Hennessy’s relationship to the Anglo-American states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ […]
[…] anti-communist special forces. In 1962 he returned to Vietnam as the CIA’s chief of field operations. He also served as a ‘floating emissary’, reporting directly to the Kennedy White House while secretly coaching the cabal of generals who murdered President Diem and his opium-addicted brother Nhu on 2 November 1963. After the bloody coup […]
[…] fascism, communism and the left for New Statesman, Socialist, Casablanca, and Private Eye. Anthony Frewin works in the British film industry. His The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography 1963-92 has just been published by the Greenwood Press in the USA. Peter Smith teaches politics at the University of […]
[…] Cabinet colleague, Chris Smith. The MP for Islington South is no stranger to the United States. Between his first degree at Cambridge and his doctorate there, a Kennedy scholarship took him to Harvard for a year. A few years in local government earned him the chance of a seat and shortly after being elected […]
[…] on this side of the Channel. How could they know?……. “They found Cook County”, was the jaundiced comment of one observer, recalling the infamous result that gave Kennedy his victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.’ Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from […]
[…] to do what? Notes This won’t exactly reduce the suspicions that Scaife was merely a front man for Agency money. I wonder if this group included George Kennedy Young, who was certainly working with McWhirter at this point in Unison on the same lines. Young isn’t mentioned here. This largely confirms the version of […]
