[…] became enmeshed in pre-assassination Oswald operations, and possibly the plot as well. As for the pre-assassination operations, one clue as to what is being concealed is the suppressed content in successive alterations of a single key document, the DFS account of Silvia Durán’s statement when arrested on November 23, 1963. There are at least […]
[…] X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it are usually suppressed. A Digression: Drugs, Meta-Groups and the Compradorial Revolution The question arises whether this is the only such meta-group in the international drug milieu. My tentative answer […]
[…] was passed to Stalin) he was locked away and the whole affair was buried in secrecy in case it damaged morale. Even after 1945 successive governments have suppressed the truth because it would reveal as fiction the story that Britain stood alone and united against Germany in 1940-41. Such is Costello’s thesis. His book […]
[…] For the pernicious influence of the China Lobby on American foreign and domestic policies, see especially Koen. This excellent study was originally published in 1960, but was suppressed at that time by hardline elements within and outside of the US government, who thence published a McCarthyite work in response — Davis and Hunter (1963). […]
Introduction On May 20th this year the San Francisco Examiner ran a story by Kathy Kadane which began, ‘The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed … Read more
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
[…] Transportation Safety Board, whose chief investigator at Anchorage “described the decision as unprecedented.” and that the plane’s ‘black box’ flight recorder had, in fact, been recovered and suppressed by the US.(Guardian 28 July 1984) Most of this material is included in a page-length review in Guardian Weekly by Le Monde’s Alain Jacobs (23 September […]
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more
[…] and covert political groups, which are a common feature of modern politics. For this and other reasons, serious research into genuine conspiratorial networks has at worst been suppressed, as a rule been discouraged, and at best been looked upon with condescension by the academic community.(3) An entire dimension of political history and contemporary politics […]
