First off, a slight digression. There’s been much talk recently about just how many books have been published on the assassination. ‘Over 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK […]
[…] Diem by a personal friend of Kennedy’s, Torbert MacDonald. “MacDonald himself explained why Kennedy sent him. The President had begun to develop personal sources of information from FBI men who were bypassing J. Edgar Hoover and going directly to him. Some CIA people were following a similar route and avoiding the agency …. when […]
[…] newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI spy Robert Hanssen was bad! (But no info about his specific badness, and no mention of the tunnel the Americans dug under the Russian embassy, or […]
[…] here, but consider the following items, at least: Medellin trafficker Carlos Lehder testified at Noriega’s 1991 trial that the Medellin cartel gave $10 million to the contras. FBI informant Wanda Palacio told the Kerry subcommittee that she saw cocaine being loaded onto pilot Wallace Sawyer’s plane in Barranquilla, Colombia in 1985. (Sawyer and his […]
Dan Berger Edinburgh and Oakland (USA): AK Press 2006; £15 and $20, p/b The front cover of this history of the group shows a small group of the Weatherwomen, most with crash helmets on, carrying North Vietnamese flags, marching through Chicago to fight the Chicago police who were waiting in the centre of the […]
[…] gun-running organisation. What follows is the contents of the address book Korkala sent to Marie McCarthy (friend of his and Terpil in Beirut) from his cell before FBI agents spirited him back to New York. She says the book contains the names of top CIA and other intelligence officers in the Middle East and […]
Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95 ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or […]
[…] be you, your family, your town, And – via a defensive switch – your country – the U.S. of Mafia. Who’s to censor it? J. Mafia Hoover’s FBI? Mafia ITT? McCone’s CIA? President Chappaquiddick-Onassis-Hughes Dick? Next president Chappa-quiddick Onassis-Hughes Teddy? Any Mafia court? Any Mafia attorney? Any Media Mafia? Who? Mafia Alioto’s cops? Mary […]
[…] distinction as an Army officer and as a high-ranking CIA official in times of enormous world tension’. Breuer cited Ted Shackley and W, Raymond Wannall of the FBI as two of his sources and wrote: ‘One of JM WAVE’s most notable successes was in convincing a ball-bearing manufacturer in Frankfurt, West Germany, to make […]
[…] and described, with 60 pages of fully sourced notes and 16 documentary appendices. (The last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark phrase: ‘Basic facts yet contradictions on Oswald in Mexico; photo not him’.) Wrone is brisk to the point of […]
