[…] And he was killed in that centre of the oil culture, Dallas, on his way to make a speech at the International Trade Mart….. whose head, in New Orleans, was a man named Clay Shaw……. Probe and The Fourth Decade (TFD) formerly The Third Decade (TTD) were outstanding founts of information of this ilk. […]
[…] curious. (b) Splinter Factor p. 163 says: ‘Meanwhile. the CIA had been working on the Clementis case. In October 1949 Clementis attended the U.N. General Assembly in New York and immediately a two-pronged attack, designed to persuade him to seek political asylum, was launched by the CIA through its State Department outlets and by […]
[…] 14 March 1993. The Independent of that date had as the heading to its second Hatton story, ‘Prosecution hung on two ambiguous diary entries’.) This is the latest instance where there is almost enough evidence to show that the prosecution was mounted by the state simply to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are […]
[…] never got it back — don’t bother returning it now, Gerald — and so am unable to say with any certainty how much of this edition is new, improved, corrected and so on. However, at 746 pages, including index, this new, hard-back edition is at least 100 pages longer than the previous one, and […]
[…] his government was the bad guy in the story and the Libyans might be telling the truth. There is, it should be noted at the outset, nothing new here on the bombing. There are, however, thirty or so photographs of Chasey skiing at Vail, Colorado, shaking hands with Senators, foreign leaders, Presidents etc.; and […]
[…] the CIA. ‘You know that The Paris Review was Peter Matthiessen’s cover,’ he said. ‘He is haunted by the CIA.’ I know for a fact that the New York Times had outed Matthiessen in an article published 25 December 1977 by John M. Crewdson and Joseph B. Treaster. (1) George heard every word but […]
[…] on the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult is the New Labour group currently fronting the Labour Party. Tony Blair gives every indication to me of being about to drift away on a pillow of guff from […]
[…] Once the papers have printed it the damage is done. Even when the facts come out, the original image is the one that sticks.’ (p. 238) Miller notes that, ‘The day after every single British national newspaper and television news programme had given their readers and viewers a false account of what had happened […]
[…] course; but, pace Foucault, the most lumpen version of Marxism, gets you to the same place, doesn’t it? I’m not convinced that Rogers has done anything that new here, but she has written a brisk, mostly readable account of the use of the Official Secrets Act by the British state from a radical perspective, […]
[…] is deemed to be consistent with notions of a ‘free press’ and ‘political science’. In the second approach, by contrast, one can consider the facts of the real world.’ (emphasis added) I read that and let out a sigh of pleasure. Call me a naive empiricist, but I like the sound of ‘the facts […]
