NFTB
There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ‘journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is £3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is £7.50. Outside the UK: in Europe add 15%; elsewhere 20% and send Sterling cheque, IMO, Euro or dollar bills to equivalent.
Website: <www.borderland.co.uk>
Spinwatch
<www.spinwatch.org/>
Recent interesting British site with essays when I looked on the global uses of PR: e.g. Ukraine/NED and BSkyB and UK government. It was profiled in The Guardian (Media) on 25 January. Spinwatch’s Professor David Miller had a piece in Counterpunch, ‘The Ministry of Defence in the Control Room’ ([1]) which began:
‘A Spinwatch investigation has revealed that journalists working for the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) have been commissioned to provide news reports to the BBC. The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’
On-line free sources
There are two wonderful free sources of news stories on geopolitics, intelligence etc. There is Mario Profaca’s ‘Spy News’ which sends out daily bulletins of up to 25 news stories from around the world. This can be accessed from the Profaca’s Website, which is one of the more remarkable features of the Net. <http://mprofaca.cro.net>
The second is the work of two Dutch researchers:
- Fringe Intelligence: intelligence news next to mainstream;
- Fringe Spitting: news and tools for investigative journalists.
- Fringe Intelligence, for example, is a monthly bulletin of around 1 Mb!
To subscribe send the message ‘start fringe’ to <>
Fringe would welcome financial donations.
CIA
<www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0401/S00151.htm> is the source of a detailed study of the CIA’s ‘black budget’ by Dr Michael Salla.
And an interesting glimpse of the scale of the CIA’s operations in the early years of the Cold War in Europe was given in the Copenhagen Post 20 February 2004. ([2])
‘……the CIA was provided with a complete copy of all Danish archives, which was transported over the Atlantic in the form of 244 spools of 16 mm film and 8 spools of 32 mm film containing over 400,000 pages of sensitive and top-secret information about hundreds of thousands of Danish citizens, enabling the American authorities to reject “unsuitable” individuals applying for visas.’
We may reasonably presume that Denmark was not the only state to do this.
Neo-cons and the left
Although it is a bit of a struggle to get through, and not user-friendly, the long essay at <http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/cia-infiltrating-left.html> contains a good deal of use-ful information on the trajectories of various (mostly American) leftists who ended up as neo-conservatives.
Googling
<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/> is a study of Google censorship. Most of the sites which have been omitted by Google in this study are US far right groups.
<http://www.google-watch.org/> is Daniel Brandt’s site which monitors Google’s activities and protocols.
JFK: Billy Sol Estes
A long, detailed account of the Billy Sol Estes-LBJ fraud story by Larry Hancock, is on the Net in two parts: part 1 is at <http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/lofiversion/index.php/t2380.html> and part 2 at <t2379.html>
This is by far the biggest and best account of these events currently available and conveys like nothing else I have seen the scale of the Estes fraud. This is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the LBJ-dunnit explanation of JFK’s death. This is a major piece of research.
Landsdale on Dealey Plaza?
In the 1980s the late Fletcher Prouty claimed to have identified the notorious General Edward Lansdale on Dealey Plaza just after the shooting of JFK: in the background one of the photographs of the three ‘tramps’ with the implication that Lansdale was involved in the assassination. Since the photograph in question does not show the face of the person passing the three ‘tramps’ as they were being arrested, I, along with most of the Kennedy researchers, have never taken the identification seriously. ([3])However, in a 1985 letter to Prouty, now on the Net, another soldier, General Victor Krulak, former CO of the US Marine Corps, concurred with Prouty’s ID of the figure on the photograph.
‘As to photo no. 1. That is indeed a picture of Ed Lansdale. The haircut, the stoop, the twisted left hand, the large class ring. It’s Lansdale. What in the world was he doing there? Has anyone ever asked him and who was the photographer? Why did he take the pictures? What did he do with them?’ ([4])
This is impressive. But look at that picture and ask yourself if you would recognise a friend from such a side-rear shot? I am still not quite convinced.
Notes
[1] <www.counterpunch.org/miller03142005.html>
[2] In English at <www.cphpost.dk/get/75884.html>
[3] The photograph in question is at <http://jfkassassination.net/russ/infojfk/jfk6/6figIV55p270.jpg> and a cropped, enlarged version is at <www.decentria.com/prouty.html> accompanied by a 1990 letter from Prouty to Jim Garrison, laying out the core of Prouty’s thesis about the CIA and Dealey Plaza.
[4] <www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/USO/appD.html>