Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

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[PDF file]: […] Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti-communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS and COINTELPRO […]

The Gloucester Horror

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[PDF file]: […] the porphyrias, the genetic description of which need not detain us, except to say briefly that porphyrins are required by the body to produce heme, the oxygen-binding agent in human blood. Porphyrin abnormalities fall into two types: the acute variety affects the nervous system producing symptoms such as unpredictable mental disturbances, muscular weakness and […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

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[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]

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