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Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? 14 15 ‘How spies used Facebook to steal Nato chiefs’ details’ 16 7 the American model of politics. So why not say so? ‘Because I love […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? ‘Absolutely not,’ Connally said. ‘I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission.’ So why not say so? ‘Because I love this […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

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[PDF file]: […] in which these two books appear. 1 3 indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy theories without theories? But then this is post-modernism and any old […]

The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

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[PDF file]: […] Single Integrated Operating Plan – which involved a massive, concerted nuclear weapons salvo against Russia, China, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and the other ‘Iron Curtain’ states. President Kennedy and his defence chief, Robert McNamara, wanted some other options on the table, besides instantaneous total destruction of all foreign communists and their neighbours. Ellsberg tried […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

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[PDF file]: […] Birchall is new to me1 but Professor Peter Knight has been in these columns before. Almost 20 years ago Anthony Frewin reviewed Knight’s Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files.2 Frewin was irritated by the author’s assumption that those pursuing what-happened-on-DealeyPlaza are conspiracy theorists. Mostly they aren’t; and the assumption by Knight […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]

Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven by Robert Merrit

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[PDF file]: […] Merritt’s confessions here, if only half true, make those claims seem a little less ridiculous. Readers who have been paying attention to the LBJdunnit version of the Kennedy assassination in the past few years in these columns will recognise the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] Establishment was subsequently adopted by a number of analysts in 1960s and 70s to explain the tumult of those times: the assassinations of the President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Watergate scandal, and the moral and strategic disaster that was the Vietnam War. The late Carl Oglesby in his book The […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] basic intellectual ground-clearing – reading, note-taking, assembling and indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy Notably Peter Knight, who is the editor of the series from […]