[…] who have held it, made Woodward a member of “an old boys’ network” whose influence in Washington is said to be profound. (others in the group include Senator Richard Lugar and Admiral Bobby Ray Inman.) In Secret Agenda I suggest that Admiral Inman, later Deputy Director of the CIA, should be a leading candidate […]
‘Everything is going to change’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b, $30.00 I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama’s victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far … Read more
[…] Oliver Stone wave that I am aware of. Fonzi, early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker’s assassination sub-committee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to work and Fonzi began to work through false trails from Clare Booth Luce, Frank […]
See note (1) David Phillips, the former CIA officer considered by the Select Committee on Assassinations as a possible candidate for the true identity behind the cover name ‘”Maurice Bishop” -(2)- reacted strongly when this book was published in the summer of 1980. He contacted top executives in newspapers and television, making himself available to … Read more
[…] 52, page 33, talking about American PR versus China’s PR, she wrote: ‘….. could succeed far more quickly than people suppose if the stunningly good looking Democrat Senator Barack Obama becomes its first non-white president. Whatever his qualities or racial mix, visually he strikes a chord with Africans, Arabs and Hispanics, as well as […]
[…] reliance on the ‘Lincoln Lawrence’ document as evidence that Oswald was mind-controlled, for instance, seems capricious; and his reliance on Robert Morrow, author of Betrayal and The Senator Must Die!, does not inspire absolute confidence. Morrow is one of a number of characters who have come forward over the years purporting to offer first […]
Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’ Introduction No apologies for returning to Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda. As Steve Dorril said in Lobster 8, this is a major event. This essay is in two parts. In the first I make some critical remarks about Secret Agenda’s central theses; In the second I speculate about other items on … Read more
[…] Shapolsky Publishers, 1992. xvii and 384 pps. Illustrated, index. I’ve never been able to take Morrow’s two previous books seriously — Betrayal, also on JFK, and The Senator Must Die on RFK’s slaying, and the same goes for this. Am I missing something? Introduction by John H. Davis. Palamara, Vincent Michael. The Third Alternative […]
See Note (1) Introduction In The Wealth of Nations, a book supposed to underpin modern free-market philosophies, Adam Smith thought that the separation of management from ownership would inevitably gave rise to negligence and corruption. The owners of Enron were the shareholders, represented by pension funds, banks and trust funds. The chief managers of Enron … Read more
[…] recently in the Sunday Times colour supplement. It seems that Hughes’ power extends beyond the grave in as much as Hughes so completely bankrolled Reagan’s key adviser Senator Paul Laxalt it is possible to see Reagan as Hughes’ dream come true: his own man in the White House. It may be interesting to read […]
