[…] interesting marginalia nonetheless. Notably, former FBI agent Turner tells us: that the book may have resulted from contact between the Garrison inquiry and the KGB. Working for New Orleans DA Jim Garrison, Turner wondered what the Soviets knew about Oswald and sent someone to contact the KGB in Mexico City. (Innocent days, eh? In […]
[…] regime, this hits the right targets: corporate dominance of politics, stealing the election, 9/11, the hyping of terrorism, the Patriot Act, neo-cons, the religious right the new American Reich which Bush Jnr. has fronted since the Republicans ran their little coup in Florida. All entirely acceptable but rather familiar and mostly unsourced. It […]
[…] in these areas where abuse is most likely to occur. What should be done? It is my belief that civil liberty activists should not merely be opposing new repressive legislation but should be actively campaigning for the extensions of liberties and the creation of real accountability so that abuses and violations of civil liberties […]
Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the […]
[…] his or her name and address. Reproduced below is one of them, reduced from A4. We don’t know for sure if this organisation actually existed. These four new ones plus two from Wallace’s files and the notorious Edward Short Swiss bank account, have been published as a pamphlet, The Anti-Labour Forgeries, by Labour CRISIS […]
[…] Dallas, that he met Oswald when Oswald was living there, are of some interest. It is in this context that the testimony to the Warren Commission of New Orleans lawyer Dean Andrews is so interesting. When I skimmed through the Warren Commission’s twenty plus volumes of evidence and testimony twelve years ago Andrew’s contribution […]
[…] Lobster 19, here are some more fragments of evidence. Journeying Far and Wide; A Political and Diplomatic Memoir Philip M. Kaiser Maxwell MacMillan International/Charles Scribner, Oxford and New York, 1992 This one slipped by me when it was published and I came across it in the library. A pleasant, if unexceptional, memoir by US […]
The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New […]
[…] of confidential briefings by the British spooks, I’m not sure you would be my idea of a ‘non-partisan reporter’, either. Papa! Kevin Koogan e-mailed me about the new Pope, Ratzinger, quoting the New York Times to the effect that Ratzinger had been brought to the Vatican Council at the age of 35 by Cardinal […]
[…] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62663-2001Dec 18.html (1) There are lots of obvious uses for such a device, some of them positive but most of them ominous. Mobile phones ‘Mobile telephones in new brain tumour alert’ – was the headline to a story by Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, filed on 5 September 2001. Uhlig wrote: […]
