[…] 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 […]
[…] Paris peace talks (an early ‘October Surprise’), no discussion of Nixon’s links with Howard Hughes, and the links to that vast intelligence underworld. Nixon’s defining moments, the Watergate scandal, his impeachment, and resignation, exist in a similarly conspiracy-free light. Greenberg repeatedly quotes with approval those reporters who admit to having been fooled by Tricky […]
[…] taste for conspiracy theories. While she recognises that conspiracies do happen, and cites the Catilinarian 2 and Cato Street conspiracies along with the Cambridge spy ring and Watergate as evidence of her breadth of historical vision, she is in no doubt that ‘…historical conspiracies are rare. The vast majority of apparently inexplicable events turn […]
[…] Irangate, Covert Affairs, and the Secret War in Laos (New York: John Wiley, 1992), 283-84; cf. Robert Parry, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (Arlington, VA: Media Consortium, 2004), 136, 139. Patrick Cockburn, “Russia ‘planned Chechen war before bombings,’” Independent, 1/29/00, http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/features/caucasus/news/stepashin_confession.htm. Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, “The Smashing of […]
[…] death of Labour Prime Minister Norm Kirk in August 1974 began a rather weird period in New Zealand politics. Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, […]
[…] that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and his students over the past four years, including information […]
[…] Roberts, to his mother, copies of which were given to the recently deceased American conspiracy theorist and researcher, Mae Brussel, at the end of 1972, just as Watergate was flickering into life. In 1977 Brussel described Roberts’ letters to a friend of mine as ‘repetitious, giberous, libelous and unsubstantiated’; which, coming from Mae Brussel, […]
[…] This is two complete pages plus, a brilliant summary of the text as well as the best account of the weight of the Wallace material -‘The British Watergate’. The Foot book was raised in Parliament by Ken Livingstone (Hansard 27/6/89 columns 943 – 952) and by Tam Dalyell (Hansard 8/6/89 columns 428- 431). Both […]
I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
[…] career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, that means it is not illegal’….’ Oh, so it wasn’t until then that Nixon was finally sunk, and by this […]
