[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] been roundly dismissed by almost everybody with a knowledge of Middle East affairs. Unfortunately they were warmly welcomed by her fellow neo-conservatives in the White House and Pentagon. As Mylroie herself put it: ‘I take satisfaction that we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) […]
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[…] is the US military going down a road it has been down already? (7) Is it a case of one hand (among the many attached to the Pentagon) not knowing what the others have done? Or are these new research projects a kind of cover story to enable them to ‘discover’ something they have […]
