[…] ten competing cereal brands on the shelf. Welcoming converts but not necessarily engaged in organised conversion (the equivalent, in retail terms, of no longer cutting prices to kill the competition in a winner take all tactic), the major faiths in Britain are playing the numbers game. Together they form a huge political lobby with […]
[…] Dulles, was working with McDonald, then Chief of Security for Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kimsey allegedly told McDonald at that time details of the plot to kill Kennedy. The actual assassin, Kimsey maintained, was a contract killer sometimes employed by Kimsey on behalf of the CIA. In his book Appointment in Dallas (1975), […]
Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, added … Read more
[…] (if you’re black or a Native American) through to media character assassination, but it is a grim read. By world standards, The Great Satan hasn’t had to kill many at home since 1900; and why it hasn’t needed to is explained here. The author argues that the American state has gone ‘beyond bullets’, that […]
[PDF file]: […] “suitably grateful” for the DeMotte and other “fine stories” which Bennett had been “feeding” Woodward; and also an arrangement between Bennett and attorney Edward Bennett Williams to “kill off” revelations of the CIA’s relationship to Bennett’s agency, the Mullen Company. Edward Bennett Williams, the lawyer who previously had done work for the CIA with […]
[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]
[…] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] Books, 2024, £20 Simon Matthews This is a very detailed, complicated account of the attempts made by a UK policeman (John Stalker) to investigate suspected ‘shoot to kill’ murders, carried out in Northern Ireland by the UK security services and/or persons connected with them in the early 80s. The main narrative runs to 417 […]
[PDF file]: […] the subject was sparked by an anonymous former Warren Commission attorney who complained that they were not given the full facts, especially about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro.3 Although a great deal was kept from the Warren Commission, Shenon believes they got it right: the president was killed by one […]
