[…] cautious views on JFK’s death of – say – Professor Peter Dale Scott or former CIA officer John Newman, she could not have so blithely dismissed the JFK researchers as ‘amateurs’. Iran-Contra is sketched in and she flunks the central issue of the CIA’s role in facilitating the wholesale importation of cocaine. She notes […]
[PDF file]: […] in print, I point to General Lyman Lemnitzer, ex US Chief of the General Staff, later NATO supremo, as a key figure involved in the assassination of JFK.’ The reality is a disappointment, to say the least. There is almost no documentation. We have hundreds of pages of unsupported assertion; and if you are […]
[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]
[PDF file]: […] supporter of Italy’s Christian Democrats. See FBI memo from Special Agent in Charge, New York, to Director, FBI, May 15, 1963, record identifier 124-10215-10313, Records of the JFK Assassination, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Brod’s later work investigating ‘Italian politicians and fascists, political parties, Nazi fugitives, CP activities and Soviet and Chinese […]
[PDF file]: […] is a phantom, and it will enslave us.’ Further asides which may whet the appetite of the assiduous Lobster readers are the references to the interventions of JFK in 1963 to prevent the growth of offshore. He had put down legislation to crack down on deferred taxation. ‘The corporate community went ape-shit.’ JFK had […]
[PDF file]: […] as a lot of speculation. The author’s analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed Mark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on his […]
[PDF file]: […] Texas Democrats, has not been documented. He does link Jack Ruby to the Dallas Civello gang, but there is nothing in this book linking the shooting of JFK to Civello/Marcello/Mondolini. North would have us conclude that this inference is inescapable. But it isn’t. Pursuing this thesis North has to ignore much of the extant […]
[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]
[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]
[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]
