[…] 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 […]
[…] by David Cairns, an ‘official in the European Union department of the Foreign Office.’ A familiar ring? In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that ‘The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. […]
[…] source. The results are there to be seen in your daily newspaper: story after story attributed to no one in particular: ‘Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Pentagon official said’, ‘White House sources denied’. So the news gets fuzzier – some would say it becomes more propagandistic – as sources disappear. Ambitious and calculating […]
[…] administration. (2) Young asked Cook why the British government supports the US so slavishly. ‘Because of the Ministry of Defence’s fanatical determination to keep close to the Pentagon. They will never do anything that puts that relationship out of line. The truth is that it is the pivot of all military careers and a […]
[…] ‘He was very concerned about getting along with the administration…… and “playing along” really meant to sustain the conceptions of the policy makers – particularly at the Pentagon and the Vice-President’s office – that Saddam Hussein was a real and imminent danger. ‘To do that, you had to accept some of these alarming reports […]
[…] a natural order – or at least, should be made so. Hence, as we have also discussed, the efforts of Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney at the Pentagon to establish the pre-emptive principle as a part of the US strategic furniture. Despite mounting near-unilateral military efforts in Iraq and the Balkans, the doctrinal case […]
[…] was helping the USA in its war with the Soviets in Afghanistan, and (b) US arms corporations were making money selling weapons systems and planes to the Pentagon which were being passed on to the Pakistan military as part of the price of co-operation in ‘the war on terror’. In short: Pakistan acquired the […]
[…] involvement in S.E. Asia. (See, for example, his wonderful book The War Conspiracy (US 1972) and his essay in Volume 5 of the Gavel Edition of The Pentagon Papers.) But he is probably best known for his writing on the Kennedy assassination. The 1978 Penguin book, The Assassinations, contains two of his essays on […]
[…] the Ford Foundation 1966-79. His brother, William Bundy, was with the CIA 1951-61 and later managed the CFR journal Foreign Affairs from 1979, after working at the Pentagon 1964-69. He married Dean Acheson’s daughter. Finally, all three Directors of the CIA in this period were also members of Bilderberg: Allen Dulles (John Foster Dulles’s […]
[…] Website is Nick McDermott, ‘Big Brother tapping our phones and e-mails 1,000 times a day’, The Daily Mail, 29 January 2008. Scott’s presentation at one of last year’s COPA (Coalition on Political Assassinations) conferences, ‘JFK & 9/11: insights gained from studying both’, can be seen at Gareth Porter ‘How the Pentagon planted a false story’
