[…] cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco…..’ Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a ‘CIA operative’ who makes the […]
Rob Evans House of Stratus, London, 2000 This is a long (over 400 pages with notes and appendices), minutely detailed account of experiments at Porton Down from the First World War onwards. The story is pretty much what you would expect: thousands of British squaddies were persuaded to volunteer for the experiments, most apparently […]
Thomas J. and Kathleen Schaeper Herghahn Books, Oxford and New York, 1998 No price stated Chatty, readable account of American Rhodes Scholars. Although full of interesting anecdotes about individuals, this makes no serious attempt at the second half of the subtitle. Despite listing the large numbers of Rhodies in the Kennedy, Johnson and Clinton […]
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Dick Russell New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he […]
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States […]
William F. Pepper Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995, but distributed in the UK by WWM at £21.00 Tony Frewin mentioned this book in his survey of the JFK and related literature in Lobster 31. It deserves more than that. William Pepper is an American lawyer with an office in London as well as […]
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[…] the book has had wonderful reviews. The exceptions are the Guardian, for whom Clive Ponting wrote a very odd, almost evasive review (2 June 89); and the New Statesman and Society (21 July 89) in which Duncan Campbell tried to undermine Wallace and denigrate the book -presumably because it was a story he had […]
[…] a key figure both in creating Hitler’s anti-semitism and, through the work done by his student Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, in defeating it. More detective work on Wittgenstein’s life in Cambridge during the 1930s now seems essential. Perhaps some answers will emerge, not from Cambridge, but from the new treasure-trove of Russian archives.
