[…] ‘Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb’, a special edition of Watershed, available for £1.50 from National Pure Water Association, 12 Dennington Lane, Crigglestone, Wakefield, WF4 3UT, UK. FBI files guide The Web site http://www.crunch.com/01secret/01secret.htm contains a subject guide to thousands of FBI files (and their file numbers) that are now publicly accessible. In many […]
[…] charge of the FBI’s investigation of Watergate. Kunkle — not named in Colodny and Gettlin, or in Hougan — is a plausible candidate in my view. The FBI were getting dumped on and obstructed by the White House over Watergate — Hoover had just seen off the so-called Houston Plan, perceived by the Bureau […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]
[…] vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti-Communist informant for the FBI claimed to have learnt that the Communist Party was responsible for the killing. (2) Today – i.e. in 1977 – Galante is commonly referred to as […]
US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to […]
[…] Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 478pps, $29.95. The commonly accepted view is that the Warren Commission was a prisoner of its sources (i.e. the FBI) and that, coupled with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), resulted in […]
[…] Oswald know about this? Was he indeed one of the conspirators, but a loose cannon who could be conveniently pushed overboard? Or was he in fact an FBI penetration agent? This suggestion should not be ignored. Threats to Kennedy’s life had been uttered by all kinds of strange groups and it would have been […]
[…] of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find himself part of history. DELOACH, Cartha D. Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995. 440 pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Hoover’s right-hand man offers up his apologia for Hoover […]
[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017 John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and […]
[…] Intermediate, and Expert sections. Treachery in Dallas is a mature, reflective work based on many years of research and contains one of the best critiques of the FBI and the Warren Commission’s failure to adequately investigate the assassination. Brown’s main concern, however, is the Dallas PD and their failure to protect the president, investigate […]
