[…] and maintain the external value of sterling. Instead, Heath floated the pound. Nothing, not even the international value of sterling, was to get in the way. (President Nixon had already floated the dollar.) Heath’s gamble didn’t work for two reasons. In the first place, with no commercial or economic experience, Heath simply didn’t understand […]
[…] slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking tens of billions of dollars here.) If true, […]
Drugs, oil and war Peter Dale Scott Oxford (UK) and New York : Rowman and Littlefield Inc; 2003, $22.95, p/b On the left-hand page facing his first page of text Scott gives us two definitions of deep politics, the concept he introduced which succeeded his earlier concept of parapolitics. deep politics: ‘all those political […]
[…] through Jack who was the conduit for Soviet funds to the party. Morris travelled extensively meeting both Brezhnev and Mao Tse Tung, at one time briefing President Nixon on some of his foreign travels and contacts. All three presidents of the 1960s were aware of the Solo project and Hoover obviously regarded them as […]
[…] and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying influential Americans to argue for ‘aggressive US intervention’ to remove Allende, and eventually met with Nixon and Kissinger to further press his case. He succeeded and the US did indeed intervene. El Mercurio (bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars by […]
[…] Aries Research, now called Tom Davis Books, PO Box 1107, Aptos, California CA95001 1107 USA. Goodies to look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis […]
[…] use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO did not exist.’ The Americans were not pleased and viewed him as dangerously pro-Arab. President Nixon openly alleged that his “softness’ towards the Arabs was an attempt to safeguard his Ostpolitik by supporting the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Kissinger and […]
[…] Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and […]
[…] Opus Dei-Matesa network siphoned off money for the campaign of Giscard, who shared their technocratic, anti-political prejudices. (Matesa also allegedly donated $10,000 to the campaign of Richard Nixon for U.S. President in 1968.) These connections between Opus Dei, Giscard, and De Broglie have been raised as a possible motive for the assassination of De […]
[…] with explicating the Church’s overt attempts to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) […]
