[…] is no ‘deep politics’ in the analysis in regard to the many political assassinations, engineered wars, foreign coups and the wider Machiavellian activities of the rogue and secret state. The official 9-11 narrative also goes unchallenged and the link between corporate interests and CIA activity, for example, is not explored in substantial depth. Academics […]
[…] disingenuous. With his usual diligence, Hersh has unearthed a rich seam of original interviews with some of the supporting cast of the Kennedy White House – secretaries, secret service personnel etc. There are, however, problems with the three main sources, Judith Exner, Sam Halpern and Robert Maheu. Exner was an admitted perjurer at the […]
[…] covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two now sound rather odd, but this remains the most purely enjoyable and subversive single volume on the world’s secret servants. RR
[…] merely an account of a psychologist spectating on her own break-down. But this is strikingly similar to the experience of Girard. (And those who have read Open Secret, Tony Collins’ account of the strange deaths of a number of British scientists, will hear in this certain obvious resonances with some of the “suicides’ in […]
[…] the Communist Party of Great Britain in the Medway Towns 1920-45. Includes useful historical material relating to the Far Right and Left, (particularly the the CPGB), the Secret State and twentieth century British history, including details of specialised libraries of archival material and academic theses on these subjects. Free trade, globalisation and TNCs Maiglomania […]
[…] fantasies than fully realisable attempts to overthrow the existing regime and institute some form of republic. Students of the arcane arts of espionage, agents provocateurs and of secret policing will find much of interest in the book. However, somewhere in that dark and unknowable place between the original pitch for it, the author’s research […]
[…] they flunked the assassinations in the 1960s. Only once, with Watergate, and then only half-heartedly, have the Democrats been willing to take up the issue of the secret powers of the state and its links to their political enemies. Parry explains this paralysis, in part, as a fear of the Republican-supporting media created since […]
[…] who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of the City of London is now owned by American banks, […]
[…] ‘we are all Thatcherites now’. At least there are a few people left who think this subject merits debate. Notes 1 Colin Challen, Price of Power: the secret funding of the Tory Party, (London: Vision, 1998) 2 Jules Witcover, No Way to Pick a President: How money and hired guns have debased American elections, […]
[…] very similar to the anti-hero found in many Graham Greene novels, or a German George Smiley. It is also recorded that he was ‘linked’ to various ‘ secret societies’ that were banned in the Third Reich but prominent in Austria, Hungary, Lithuania and Latvia. They presumably formed part of the Catholic lobbying groups, Intermarium, […]
