[…] and, after firing his first couple of shots, his arm was grabbed by one of the crowd. If Sirhan did not do it, Thane Cesar, a part-time security guard standing behind Kennedy, is the only other possible gunman. (When he was shot Kennedy whirled round and ripped-off Cesar’s bow-tie before he fell to the […]
Tom Bower London: HarperCollins, 2004, £20, h/b I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is … Read more
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
[…] hate figure, Roosevelt, but the British government. Part of the conspiracy was a series of covert operations in America run by the British secret state (as British Security Co-ordination) which sought to neutralise/seduce the isolationists in Congress and persuade the American population to support US entry. This rather large conspiracy – a secret that […]
Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism – 1900-38 Guido Preparata US: University of Michigan Press, 2005; h/b, $90.00; p/b $28.95 UK: Pluto Press, 2005; h/b £60.00; p/b £17.99 I would like to introduce a recently published book that has been overlooked. Guido Preparata’s Conjuring Hitler: How the Western Elite Incubated Nazism-1900-38 reinterprets … Read more
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Pan Books, 1998, £7.99 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan, 1999, £25 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan 2000, £25 Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries are quite remarkable. Any normal persons would have tried … Read more
[…] figures such as former Philippines president Fidel Ramos and former Thai premier Anand Panyarachun; former Bundesbank president Karl Otto Pohl, and Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the Security and Exchange Commission, the US stock market regulator. Such a roster ensures that multi-million dollar deals are done with ‘a drink and a wink’ by old […]
[…] heard of. The case received little publicity, getting buried under 9-11. See the collection of articles at There is also a sense that in not taking serious security precautions while running for the Democratic nomination in 1968, Robert was inviting his own death. Talbot has/had an interesting blog documenting the reaction of the American […]
[…] the other hand some of their political aims are exposed. May I quote an excerpt from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the basis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question […]
