A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 … Read more
The Oyston Affair appears to have been the longest and most expensive privately-funded political dirty tricks campaign in recent British history. The astonishing 15-year campaign waged against Owen Oyston by Michael Murrin, the owner of a fish and chip shop in the village of Longridge, Lancs, was backed by help and cash payments raised by … Read more
[…] American History. The first volume is the better of the two if you want information; the second contains a couple of long graphic features, one on the murder of Officer Tippet done as a comic strip, which I could have done without and a second, a photographic feature on the Manson gang members. Of […]
[…] to the Kahane shooting,” an F.B.I. agent said.”(20) In thus limiting the case, the police and FBI were in effect protecting Nosair’s two Arab co-conspirators in the murder of a U.S. citizen. Both of them were ultimately convicted in connection with the first WTC bombing, along with another Mohamed trainee, Nidal Ayyad. The 9/11 […]
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose … Read more
[…] the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring the psy-ops operations Freeman has served up an interesting snack rather than a main course. There is one absolutely wonderful comment from […]
[…] and The Lost Crusader touch on issues that return with each morning’s newspaper: is a foreign secret intelligence service bound by international conventions governing such matters as murder, illegal imprisonment and the overthrow of governments? Is the word of the Director of Central Intelligence to be believed? Is it proper for a foreign intelligence […]
[…] after the war by J. Edgar Hoover into a covert FBI assassination squad. Just after the assassination ‘Milan’ claims he was sent by Hoover to Dallas to murder a taxi driver. Before dying the taxi driver confessed that he had been part of a (failed) Jack Ruby-sponsored assassination attempt aimed, not at Kennedy, but […]
The attack on the USS Liberty The short piece in Lobster 45 on the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was curiously timely. Soon after it appeared Captain Ward Boston, senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the incident broke his silence and stated, inter alia: ‘There is no question in … Read more
Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, £12.95 One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign – his hunt for the Red Menace … Read more
