[…] 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 […]
[…] to be tracked against their private assessments and the actual ‘ground truth’ as now known. Also made available, courtesy of ABC News, is a copy of a Pentagon report which – ‘based on the analysis of some 600,000 official Iraqi documents seized by US forces after the invasion and thousands of hours of interrogations […]
[…] its discontents Organised Crime Threatens the New World Order The Decline of American Journalism The 1960s and COINTELPRO: In Defense of Paranoia Infowar and Disinformation: From the Pentagon to the Net Mind Control and the Secret State Class Warfare: Wall Street vs Main Street. Highly recommended. Brandt is about as interesting an essayist as […]
[…] Korea was more experimental than strategic, but it was definitely offensive rather than defensive, and was part of an ongoing development program within the bowels of the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence establishments. Re: the comments in Lobster 45 p. 24, subhead ‘Monkey business?’, the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Foundations poured millions into women’s studies, […]
[…] the House of Commons Healey was announcing a ‘rationalisation’ of the UK’s remaining overseas commitments ‘on the pattern set by US Defence Secretary Robert McNamara and the Pentagon’ but actually caused by ‘economic stringency’. (4) Defending sterling Part of this was the closure of the Singapore naval base and the withdrawal from virtually everywhere […]
[…] of the niceties of ideology. Somewhere inside the Reagan administration the US business world has been ringing alarm bells about US military spending, just as it did in the late 1960s over expenditure on the Vietnam War. This time round, it remains to be seen if the Pentagon can, in fact, be reined in. RR
[…] strikes, that COG procedures were implemented by Rumsfeld and Cheney on 9/11. How important this is – if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup?’ As I make abundantly clear in my book (e.g. […]
[…] analyses of apparent anomalies in the official story. Try, for starters, the section titled ‘The missing wings’ which to me seems to show that whatever struck the Pentagon it wasn’t an airliner. Then go to < http://michaelgriffith1.tripod.com/refute.htm > in which those arguments are apparently refuted. For a critical but non-conspiratorial look, try Seth Ackerman’s […]
[…] change their record-keeping procedures with astonishing rapidity. Only the file clerks who suffer through each of these reorganizations can track down and locate the cold files. The Pentagon could not even find the name of the office within Military Intelligence that coordinated its old Sensitive Document files. As the World War II era clerks […]
[…] can never be verified. His (or her) most important sources are unidentified, unworthy of belief or simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon official’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of […]
