[…] pull together and examine the anomalies in the 9-11 story. And there is a ton of them. (1) the non-interception of the planes; the hole in the Pentagon apparently too small to have been made by the plane said to have done it; the strange collapse of the buildings themselves; the hijacker passport being […]
The Shadow Warriors Bradley F. Smith (Andre Deutsch, London 1983) The network of close personal connections established in O.S.S. (the fore-runner of the CIA) “helped bridge some of the widest gaps in American society and could be called upon in cases of need long after the war ended. For example, when in 1964 former British […]
As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters – something like 100,000 words – there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What […]
[…] day after the article was printed Pravda published a long article on the Generals’ revolt in which it said that the mutiny was encouraged by NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA. (18) The rumours on April 22nd were launched cautiously by “a minor official at the Elysee Palace itself”, according to Crosby Noyes in […]
[…] at least three others missed. I find it difficult to believe that any of the powerful elements in the US state apparatus – the intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, for example – would have felt it necessary to ambush Kennedy if they just wanted to get rid of him, or change some of his policies. […]
[…] careers for that to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is […]
[…] have foreseen in 1963 just how massive an operation Vietnam was to become within only three years. Even the early ‘hawks’ in the State Department and the Pentagon assumed that south-east Asia could be controlled relatively easily and cheaply. (15) However, a more sophisticated version of this argument can be made — and it […]
[…] which he bashed Prouty, the Christic Institute and dozens of others. Stone’s sin was to portray a ‘Mr X’ that was based on Prouty’s experiences in the Pentagon shortly before the JFK assassination. Stone had first approached Prouty for script assistance in July 1990. Although Right Woos Left in its earlier drafts, as well […]
[…] 020 7586 5892, Fax 020 7483 2531; or from Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX. Price: £5.00 Archives/Released Documents (collected by Jane Affleck) Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapeswww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/ Documents relating to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June […]
[…] it within the State Department. If Kennedy’s support for the apertura produced such opposition from the State Department, how much more hostile were the CIA and the Pentagon? In his Wilderness of Mirrors (Harper Row, New York 1980) David Martin notes that ‘to Angleton, who viewed the Socialist Party as nothing more than a […]
