[…] by 1947, when the Navy instituted Project CHATTER, America had fully entered the post-war psy-war era, and the men running such programs were willing to overlook their new hires’ bloodstained resumes.. The newly-formed CIA first plunged into this cesspool in 1950 with Project BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a cover story for […]
[…] the demands made in Washington by deposed Fijian Prime Minister, Dr Bavadra, for a Congressional investigation of American involvement. Published by Wellington Confidential, PO. Box 9034, Wellington, New Zealand The one-month-old Labour Coalition government of Fiji was terminated on May 14 1987 in a coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka, third-in-command of the […]
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was […]
[…] public if there was ever to be access to office. This is what most of us who are over a certain age would recognise as politics. The New Labour revolution of the mid-1990s (a reaction to an earlier Leftist attempt to capture the Movement and so the Party) took what it thought was the […]
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Vincent Bugliosi New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007 xlvi + 1612 pps. + CD-ROM End Notes and Source Notes (958 + 170 pps.). Illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95. ‘Reclaiming History is important not just because it’s correct, though it is. It’s significant not […]
[…] the Lynsky Tribunal did not discourage the anti-communist propagandists in the British labour movement. According to one historian writing on IRD: ‘Mayhew and Tracey decided that a new organisation should be formed with new influential TUC members taking the place of those who had left for one reason or another. A major change of […]
[…] cyanide-laced ‘Kool-Aid’ from a vat. It was as simple as that. Jonestown was proof positive of the effectiveness of brainwashing, and of the dangers inherent in the new religions. As it happened, however, this was only a theory and, as it turned out, an inaccurate one. Viz: seven months after the massacre, the New […]
[…] enough to defend a parity seen to be out of line with a currency’s real value…..John Smith and Gordon Brown truly believed that the ERM was a new, magical device which would insulate their decisions about the currency against reality.'(36) On the 16 November 1989, only months after the publication of the Gould committee’s […]
[…] send information to Lancashire police. 11 May Robert Atkins MP introduced Murrin to the wealthy Fylde developer Bill Harrison. Murrin reported later, ‘I was introduced to a new source of funds.’ Harrison, who ‘five times’ hosted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at his home, dealt directly with the private detective Chris More, and handed over […]
[…] by the time of the devaluation 1967 he had ‘gone native’, and shared the pessimism of senior Bank officials II: Crisis of Confidence The catalyst for this new turn was a disagreement between the Bank and the government about the measures needed to support the devaluation of sterling (from £1=$2.80 to £1=$2.40). The package […]
