[…] creation of a ‘totalitarian bureaucracy’. Buckley had been recruited to the CIA out of Yale. His case officer at the Agency was E. Howard Hunt, novelist and Watergate conspirator. Buckley co-founded The National Review with former Trotskyite, James Burnham, who also worked for the CIA. Buckley got his wish for a bureaucratic dictatorship when […]
[…] can decide? Lane gets the same treatment for – you can guess – going into court to defend US magazine The Spotlight, when it was sued by Watergate burglar Howard Hunt. (Lane’s book about this event is reviewed in Lobster 23, p. 35 (2) So, if two early JFK theorists are now hob-nobbing with […]
[…] pages crammed with the titles of books and pamphlets that would make any ‘progressive’ faint: ‘Our Nordic Race’, ‘Ethnic Group Differences’, ‘Jews Want to Dominate Negroes’, ‘ Watergate: Jewish Conspiracy to Seize U.S. Government’, ‘Censorship in the U.S. — I Accuse the Jews’, and ‘Racial Chaos and Criminal Anarchy — the Prelude to Black […]
[…] against the Labour Government — the Agee-Hosenball expulsions and the Aubery, Berry and Campbell (ABC) trial for example. And these were mostly triggered by the fall-out from Watergate and Vietnam in the United States. The people in London who went spook hunting in 1975/6 did so because the idea had been suggested to them […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: Gehlen, Roswell, Operation Paperclip, the murder of Gandhi; and Watergate, Littlejohn, Kincora, Allende; and AIDS conspiracy, Iran-Contra conspiracy, Hilda Murrel, Get Scargill, assassination of Mrs Ghandi. And so on. I haven’t read the whole book but […]
[…] 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 […]
