[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] events link together. Neither does he help us comprehend why Nixon supposedly complained about ‘that asshole Roberts’ during the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Nor does Roberts ever explain his claims of personal responsibility for Wategate, the Nixon resignation, and General Motors’ settlement offer to Ralph Nader (which ended […]
[…] during this time, plus an extensive online volume of intelligence documents created during the Soviet collapse. History and Politics Out Loud http://www.hpol.org/ Includes links to selected Nixon Watergate tapes and transcripts. HPOL (History and Politics Out Loud – is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, in partnership with Michigan State University) is a […]
[…] scandal took place. These articles are, literally, just the tip of an iceberg of colossal dimensions. When – if – all this comes out it will make Watergate look relatively insignificant. However, for the moment all we can offer is these two pieces, and it is appropriate that it is the Ramsay half of […]
[…] CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the […]
[…] on the assassination, spanning 30 years, suggests why he spent so much time on the Nagell story. The essays show Russell pursuing all manner of leads after Watergate, when the assassination returned to the stage, some of them generated by the Garrison inquiry, none of which ultimately amount to much. Russell reports on the […]
[…] I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
