[PDF file]: […] when the Republicans got wind of this, JFK’s brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess […]
[…] I noticed in a review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power7 that Aoki had been working for the FBI at the time. What would the American left have looked like without the federal government’s involvement? Brain waves T hree significant pieces warning us about the […]
[PDF file]: […] after the Maid of the Seas disintegrated early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after […]
[PDF file]: […] him I got a call from an American writer I know called Jim Hougan. Hougan had been chatting to a friend, who had a contact in the FBI, and somehow this little magazine produced in Hull, England, came up. Don’t worry about Lobster, was the message, Lobster has been penetrated. That seemed absolutely hilarious […]
[PDF file]: […] JOSEPH MILTEER? From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle Don Adams Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2012. x + 226 pps., illustrations, index, $24.95. The First Rule of FBI Club: Protect the Bureau! The codicil to which is: Protecting the Bureau trumps Truth, Justice, and everything else the great Republic holds dear. This was how […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]
[PDF file]: Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’ Garrick Alder Lee Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’ has always aroused suspicions. Written in Oswald’s distinctive hand, and complete with his dyslexic traits, it ostensibly records his stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very […]
[…] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 Right Sector The chief entryists to […]
[PDF file]: […] makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low budget end, which the author discusses. […]
[PDF file]: […] the company together with their phone number is in the address book and underneath Oswald has written micro dots. Well, big deal. So what? Weberman comments: ‘An FBI document dated October 2, 1964, revealed that the Bureau examined photographs of Oswald in the USSR and his Russian books for microdots, but found none. Among […]
