[…] Fox, the author of the first critical study of the Warren Commission’s findings put out by a mainstream publisher, The Unanswered Questions about President Kennedy’s Assassination ( New York: Award Books, 1965). Actually, it was preceded by Thomas G. Buchanan’s Who Killed Kennedy? (London: Secker & Warburg, 1964) which was published before the Warren […]
[…] achieve.’ Why did it fail? Apart from the obvious point that few in the Middle East will believe American propaganda, a point which Collins cannot make, Collins notes: ‘The increase in the number of satellite television news services and internet connections makes it ever more difficult to influence opinions globally.’ It is hard to […]
[…] around the world and living in the knowledge that there are people much worse off than me.’ Release from prison is often only the start of a new set of problems. There is no organised system of professional help for those released on appeal, despite the often serious social and psychiatric problems experienced by […]
[…] confidently believed at the time that British covert agencies were implicated in the loyalist campaign and the Brian Nelson case provided concrete evidence for this. Nick Davies’s new book, Ten Thirty Three, explores the Nelson affair and raises issues that must not be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist […]
[…] how this post-war generation passed on its passions, beliefs and networks to the Reagan generation’. (page 4) In fact Russ Bellant did in his Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party: domestic fascist networks and their effect on US cold war politics, a Political Research Associates book (3rd edition published by South […]
[…] supply operation. (3) Perhaps because of this, the Americans are making every effort to dispel suspicions of sabotage. But the Pakistani authorities are in no doubt: the new President Ghulam Ishaq Khan has spoken of the enemy penetrating into the very heart of the nation. The two main candidates for a sabotage operation must […]
[…] the ACC). Meanwhile Senator Thurmond was key senate contact of Tongsun Park, while in 1973 Park’s House proteges Richard Hanna and Robert Leggett helped set up a new pro-Taiwan lobby after a KMT-sponsored visit to Taipei. (126) Until the fall of the right-wing Cambodian government in 1975, the Moon paper, Rising Tide (full of […]
[…] robots; EM weapons; and finally nanotechnology. Again the author can only give a brief run through of the technologies involved. I found much of the information was new to me and was especially intrigued by the possibilities of vortex ring technology. However, the same problem arises as with the first section: there simply isn’t […]
[…] failed to penetrate British (but essentially English) culture. By looking at 20th British history through the development of the aircraft industry, Edgerton shows us British society through new eyes — and in so doing tramples gleefully all over the boundary markers of several would-be discrete academic areas. The state equals military power; and after […]
12. Spooks – U.S. After the disastrous Iranian hostage operations, the Pentagon created a new intelligence/covert ops unit called Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known, apparently, as “the activity”. Augmenting both the CIA and the Pentagon’s own DIA, ISA existed for at least a year without Presidential/Congressional knowledge or approval. The unit is […]
