[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] this contains an account of the intelligence cold war, and large chunks of American political life from post-WW2 to beyond Angleton’s fall in 1974 and the post- Watergate Senate and Congressional inquiries. This is seriously good history, as well as a biography; Holzman is a very good writer, with a style somewhere between the […]
[…] and lobbyists to public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of […]
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[…] Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute claim; Gilligan’s ‘sexed-up’ report;(22)the ‘British Watergate’ of the mobile labs which didn’t exist; the use of Kelly as a political pawn by Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and Geoff Hoon; the not-quite-leak of […]
