[…] the CIA. Epstein writes for all the world as if none of the revelations about the real nature of American political life that occurred between Dallas and Watergate, had ever existed; and in this innocent world of black hats and white hats he would have us believe that only James Angleton, the erstwhile head […]
[…] Tetra was debated in the House of Commons in March 2005.(12) During the debate several MPs reported their constituents’ complains of ill-health generated by the Tetra masts. Watergate: why Spencer Oliver’s phone was tapped When the Nixon White House ‘plumbers’ broke into the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) they placed taps […]
[…] beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, had taken part in the assassination of John Kennedy. The admission would be a ‘limited hang-out’. Hunt sued Spotlight; Marchetti had — or was willing […]
[…] 40 years Italy’s political system has been subverted by US-funded parapolitics, demonstrating the universal application of the late Ralph J. Gleason’s First Law of American Politics After Watergate: no matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you could possibly imagine. In Italy’s case, not only was it worse, it […]
[…] of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody outside Whitehall did. But we do have ‘Watergate politics’ and have had them since the […]
[…] of national security. Nixon went after the CIA and quick as a flash, E. Howard Hunt (Conein’s comrade from OSS Detachment 202) bungled the bugging of the Watergate Hotel. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who had just been assigned to cover the war on drugs, was approached by the still anonymous Deep Throat, and […]
[…] the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[…] The system is able to bring a maverick agency (like the FBI under Hoover) back into line. The classic example of this is the Presidency, Nixon and Watergate. Here is an interesting case where a President was perceived by other elements in the system as amassing more than his share of the power and […]
[…] it. We gave out copies of Lobster 11, talked briefly, answered one or two questions, said this story of covert manipulation of British politics was the British Watergate – that was the heading on our press release – and got back on the train. I thought that would be that. The journalists would read […]
