[…] but it was sometimes much harder to put into practice than we were willing to admit. It’s not that we weren’t anti-Soviet, we just weren’t anti-Soviet enough. Notes See for a detailed account of the events, from the point of view of state actors, which surrounded the publication of Agee’s book in London and […]
[…] I was a tyro JFK buff, supplying books and articles. I met him only twice, most recently in London at a Fortean Times Unconvention. Occasional little typed notes would arrive with cuttings from the Irish media. I knew he was a book collector and dealer. That’s all I could honestly say. However at < […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the Jesuits in its influence. It has spread itself widely, if somewhat thinly across the globe and now has, amongst other buildings, a multimillion dollar headquarters in New York. The organisation is mired in controversy, which, in part, is due the secrecy with which it conducts its operations. Although O.D. is at pains to […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the body taken after the ‘execution’ of Green. As Lobster 4 was being prepared this story broke on Channel 4’s Diverse Reports and in the Guardian and New Statesman. It is of interest, re the reliability of Sunday News reports, that in this instance their story was correct. More on this in Lobster 5. […]
[…] it by force, meaning invasion and occupation, with a high political risk that makes this option scarcely realistic.’ He obviously had not read the Program for the New American Century! The history of the Middle East from the 1900s is about oil and war, alliances, empire and exploitation of the Arabs and Persians by […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 1956 IRIS pamphlet, The Communist Solar System, is justified. It may suggest much more, of course. This paragraph of Mayhew’s may point the way to a completely new interpretation of anti-communism in Britain in the 1950s and 60s. Discussing the newspapers which received IRD material, Mayhew (or his amanuensis Smith) comments that ‘At one […]
[…] major mystery of this episode is not that the right-wing should attempt such a fraud, but that the liberal wing of the American ruling elites, especially the New York end of it, should allow them to do so with so little protest. Almost the only voice raised against the ‘Team B’ fraud was ex […]
