[…] was before I moved to Berkeley — certainly this couldn’t happen there. Now I was fundamentally upset, and started collecting investigative books and building a clipping file. Watergate was also in the news, and several of those players were former USC fraternity rats like me, only a few years older. I was beginning to […]
[…] it is better not to know. There are too many things that embarrass Americans in that report. You see, this country went through a bad shock with Watergate. But even then, all they were asked to believe was that their president had been a bad person. In this new situation they are asked much […]
[…] evil geniuses are as real as 9-11 and the Holocaust. So, too, are the bumbling cabals of politicians and intelligence operatives bent upon adventures such as Iran-Contra, Watergate and the Bay of Pigs. Would Doctor Moore hold that the Nuremberg Trials were an exercise in conspiracism? Of course not. Would she deny that Hamas, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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. […]
