[…] that the book contains very useful sections which genuinely add to our knowledge of what happened in 1940-41. Costello is convincing on the pro-Nazi machinations of Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador in London. He provides the fullest English language account yet of the attempt made by Butler and Halifax in June to set up […]
[…] Garrison which kept the thing alive after 1967; it has been the CIA revelations in the context of an unpopular war in Vietnam, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr King, and the work of other, more substantial, JFK researchers. CIA admits overestimating Soviet weapons Newly declassified documents in the US show that the […]
[…] p. 303 Baker p. 308 Baker p. 348 Baker p. 311 Baker p. 345 Baker p. 348 The Guardian, 1 December 2007 ‘Blacklist?’, hosted by Professor Ian Kennedy, with guests Harold Musgrove, Hilary Wainwright, Hugo Cornwall, Richard Norton-Taylor, George Brumwell, John Macreadie, Michael Noar. Channel 4, 10 September 1988. Baker p. 178 Retired and […]
[…] propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Originally commissioned by Reader’s Digest, it was cancelled when new editorial staff took over. Don’t be put off by the Readers’ Digest tag. It should be […]
[…] speeds around the US in the 1940s and 50s with a crew of eight women. Later on we bump into speculation on the pro-Nazi sympathies of the Kennedy family (mildly interesting), L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Skorzeny, and David Icke’s view of Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Skull and Bones Society. The illustration are […]
[…] (q.v). Anti-Soviet advocate of a policy of “imperial isolationism’ for British Commonwealth and Empire; attempted to negotiate Anglo-German peace through United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy in May-June 1940, with the approval of Halifax (q. v.) and Butler. Warned off by Prime Minister Churchill. (De Courcy; Lobster 16; Costello) Domville, Admiral Sir […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and the racist right. As with the ARS, the influx of the racist right into Monday Club led to a faction fight. In 1973, fronted by George Kennedy Young, the enthusiasts of “the bridge” attempted — but narrowly failed — to take-over the Club. I presume that essentially the same people were involved in […]
[…] administration talks on big environmental issues: LESLEY ABDELA – Liberal candidate East Herts 1979, founder of the 300 Group (to increase the number of women MPs) 1980; Kennedy School of Government Harvard 1992; Electoral Reform Society 1995; British Council 1995; Deputy Director of Democracy UN Interim Administration Kosovo 1997. MAURICE ASH (see above). GRAHAM […]
[…] was murdered by Oswald working for the KGB. Chamish shows in some detail that the Rabin killing was a variation on the Sirhan Sirhan attack on Robert Kennedy. Yes, Rabin’s ‘assassin’ was firing at him at close range; but he didn’t fire the fatal shots. Chamish shows that the ‘assassination’ was meant to be […]
