[…] of the agency.) Charles Colson saw the CIA file on Watergate and made some notes on its contents which included a reference to a CIA operation smuggling gold bullion to S.E. Asia. Recently there was a reference (Times 20 March 1985) to Nixon and an episode in 1964 when he apparently went to Vietnam […]
[…] in Santo Domingo. (NACLA is the North American Conference on Latin America.) ‘Echols takes dead aim on laugh’, San Diego Union, June 12 1986, p. 11. Guyana Gold, by Wellesley A. Baird, Three Continents Press, Washington, 1982, pp. 164-181. The quotation is from an Afterword by Kathleen A. Adams. Ms. Adams wrote her doctoral […]
[…] Hannon and the British Commonwealth Union to create an industrial group of MPs in the House of Commons, to the climactic struggle over the reimposition of the Gold Standard and subsequent recession and depression of the 1930s – the conflict was between the interests of the financial and overseas sectors and its instruments in […]
[…] other), conspiracy and health. Site broken up into 1995 and 1996, and gives monthly list of items published. 1996 includes Oklahoma City bombings, Waco, Ron Brown, Nazi gold, Marilyn, Kennedy and the Mob, the buying of the President, bovine growth hormone, Gulf War syndrome and aspartame (widely used artificial sweetener thought to be associated […]
[…] Trust turned me down in a flash. Anybody got suggestions as to sources of funding for an enterprise as eccentric as this one? (Where is the Moscow gold when you need it?) Errors in the previous issue Footnote 1, page 23, second line, ‘denied’ omitted after ‘previously’. Page 15, second paragraph, third line. ’27 […]
[…] government in late 1949, giving such as evidence as it had for its communist conspiracy thesis, he does not discuss its contents. Wonder why not? Notes 1 This subject was touched on in my ‘Moscow gold: the “Communist threat” in post-war Britain’ in Lobster 25, and again in the special issue, advertised in this issue.
[…] always work in the same direction — in the interests of the City, not the manufacturing economy — and have done so since the restoration of the gold standard. Nothing was more certain, for example, than that Britain would join the ERM at too high a sterling value for the manufacturing sector. ‘Twas ever […]
[…] with busts of Luther and Calvin and one of Dennis Parry. A powerful influence on Paisley’s youthful preaching had been Teddy Sherwood on his soapbox swinging his gold boxer’s belt on the sands of Barry Island, but the made-to-measure-martyr Dennis Parry had actually shared Paisley’s bedroom at the Barry School of Evangelism and a […]
[…] its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican bank still holds the Ustasa gold looted by the Croatian fascists during the Second World War.(1) Ante Pavelic’s Ustasa regime was responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Jews and between 300 […]
[…] invasion of Canada) overseas. Now, Bloom does trace the linkages between activists across the waters – much of it due to exile or transportation – but the gold miners’ struggle in Ballarat in Australia, while very interesting and while some of the participants were former Chartists, was not a struggle for a British republic. […]
