[…] to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) and due to the extraordinary efforts […]
[…] campaign funds or was politically and financially indebted to the people who ran Vegas. Paul Laxalt, one of only two republican Senate gains in the year after Watergate, had been a long-time defender of casino interests in the state. He was the first to form a Citizens for Reagan Committee, later becoming one of […]
[…] It’s not that the books are valueless: Jeffreys-Jones has an interesting chapter on the politics around the Church Committee inquiry into the CIA in the wake of Watergate; and Craddock gives the reader a nice guided tour through the Whitehall view of the Cold War and a number of other incidents which involved the […]
[…] as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and in the normal run of events, would have been a sensation. Unfortunately it appeared during the Watergate affair and got buried by it. A flavour of Prouty’s life and writing can be found at his Web site http://www.prouty.org/ William Cooper, author Behold a […]
[…] events in Northern Ireland and was thus not astonished by Wallace’s claims. We called a press conference in London, put out a press release headed ‘The British Watergate’, spread some copies of Lobster 11 around the newsdesks of London and waited for the major media to pick up the lead we had developed. But […]
[…] and security services, with CIA and BOSS, to bring down Wilson, Thorpe and Heath; the USA: the CIA’s Operation Chaos, the FBI’s Cointelpro programme and, of course, Watergate; Australia: the loans scandal and other destabilisation of Gough Whitlam by the CIA and SIS West Germany: the destabilisation of Willi Brandt because of his overture […]
[…] created by the military rather than inborn. The parallels to Valentine’s Ellsberg piece struck me as uncanny. There never was a solid explanation as to why the Watergate burglars went after his shrink’s files. Or why Hunt claimed the Ellsberg file was never covertly photographed, when apparently it was. I suspect those photos went […]
[…] At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year Ken Livingstone’s talk was entirely about the Wilson government and the destabilisation campaign. Made Watergate look like taking candy from a child, I think was the expression. Ken for leader. American Congress for Irish Freedom 326 West 48th Street. New York. […]
[…] against Goulart. Branco was a friend of 20 years’ standing. 1972-76 While still in the army Walters was deputy director of CIA and helped The Service through Watergate and the Pinochet coup against Allende in Chile. He was involved in the assassination of Allende’s former defence minister, Orlando Letelier. 1976-81 Employed apparently in the […]
[…] been that it was simply caused by between Greece and Turkey and their respective internal political situations at the time; and that in the immediate aftermath of Watergate, the United States took its eye off the ball, ‘allowing’ the invasion almost inadvertently. There have been dissenting views, mostly from the Greek Cypriots. In their […]
