I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
[…] during this time, plus an extensive online volume of intelligence documents created during the Soviet collapse. History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/ Includes links to selected Nixon Watergate tapes and transcripts. HPOL (History and Politics Out Loud – is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with Michigan State University) is a […]
[…] scandal took place. These articles are, literally, just the tip of an iceberg of colossal dimensions. When – if – all this comes out it will make Watergate look relatively insignificant. However, for the moment all we can offer is these two pieces, and it is appropriate that it is the Ramsay half of […]
[…] CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the […]
[…] on the assassination, spanning 30 years, suggests why he spent so much time on the Nagell story. The essays show Russell pursuing all manner of leads after Watergate, when the assassination returned to the stage, some of them generated by the Garrison inquiry, none of which ultimately amount to much. Russell reports on the […]
[…] I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
[…] other Mafia figures. This ‘confession’ is merely a factor in one of the puzzles: how many assassination plots were there? Before he died former CIA officer and Watergate ‘plumber’, E. Howard Hunt, seemed to be talking of there being several plots;(7) and there are fragments of apparent advance information – for example: Milteer, Cheramie, […]
[…] days of the Dulles brothers. And to a very depressing extent they were happy to do so. Parry wonders how the US media, which ran with the Watergate story and all its ramifications in the 1970s, ended up, less than a decade later, becoming accomplices to the murder of American nuns in Central America. […]
[…] career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, that means it is not illegal’….’ Oh, so it wasn’t until then that Nixon was finally sunk, and by this […]
[…] (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat, for which I was pilloried by the media …in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
