[…] this contains an account of the intelligence cold war, and large chunks of American political life from post-WW2 to beyond Angleton’s fall in 1974 and the post- Watergate Senate and Congressional inquiries. This is seriously good history, as well as a biography; Holzman is a very good writer, with a style somewhere between the […]
[…] and lobbyists to public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of […]
[…] was secretly terminated on June 11, 1973, or shortly after press accounts of Dean’s highly-bowdlerised revelations concerning IEC which he was about to make to the Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator […]
[…] Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute claim; Gilligan’s ‘sexed-up’ report;(22)the ‘British Watergate’ of the mobile labs which didn’t exist; the use of Kelly as a political pawn by Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and Geoff Hoon; the not-quite-leak of […]
[…] recently came across these remarks from 1975 by Charlene Mitchell, speaking to a group called National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression: ‘It is suggested that since Watergate we need no longer have fear. Congress is on the alert and will protect us…The fact of the matter of course is that the dossiers continue […]
[…] election victory. Crudely summarised, Scott shows the rise of the Pentagon and its industrial allies and political front men (almost entirely men). Recovering from the set-backs of Watergate, failure in Vietnam and associated revelations and Congressional enquiries, they revived the Cold War with Soviet Union – Team B and the Committee on the Present […]
[…] offers none – he has confused John Major with his father, who did work in a circus for a time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti-Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would […]
[…] website < http://www.fair.org/fair > for more about major media and the CIA-cocaine story. Walter Pincus, ‘How I Traveled Abroad On CIA Subsidy,’ San Jose Mercury, 18 February 1967, p. 14. Kathryn S. Olmsted, Challenging the Secret Government: The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
[…] those publicly sanctioned by law and society. In popular terms, collusive secrecy and law-breaking are part of how the deep political system works.'(6) Nobody who has witnessed Watergate, Irangate, Kincora, the Rainbow Warrior murders, Stalker, Colin Wallace, or any of the other significant exposes of the secret state activities of the past 25 years […]
[…] establishment of “a public-private mechanism” to fund overseas activities openly.’ The NED was devised to eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities in the wake of Watergate and the Church Committee. According to William Blum it was a masterpiece ‘of politics, of public relations, and of cynicism’; in effect, enabling the CIA to […]
