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... Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. T he Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the gravest political and constitutional crises in U.S . history, began not with a bang but a whimper – or as President Nixon's press secretary dismissed it, a third-rate burglary attempt'.1 Despite myriad government probes, lawsuits, news stories, and scholarly analyses, no one knows for sure what motivated the historic break- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 258 - 21 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-blackmail-deep-state.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 8) June 1985 Last | Contents | Next Issue 8 Books Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan's last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient to do justice to what I expect to be a major work. Having read it once - and then as if it was a political thriller (which it is) - I will be brief and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 242 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-07.htm
... Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America's deep politics Jonathan Marshall Note: In my Blackmail and the Deep State', also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America's deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their 45th President a man who privately boasted of groping women, admitted getting his mistress (Marla Maples) pregnant while still married to his first wife (Ivana Trump), and bragged of having three other girlfriends' while living with Marla'.1 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 216 - 21 Feb 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-scandals-blackmail.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last | Contents | Next Issue 41 Jim Hougan's Watergate theory tested in court Introduction In January something very unusual happened in America: one of the major items of American parapolitics got aired in court. In the years following the events which led to Nixon's resignation, there were many Watergate books, not least those written by the participants in the drama - Dean, Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman and Nixon himself. They all offered up variations on the themes established in 1974/5 . But in 1984 Jim Hougan produced one of the great pieces of research in post-war American ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 202 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-33.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 9) September 1985 Last | Contents | Next Issue 9 Watergate revisited: Hougan's Secret Agenda'Introduction No apologies for returning to Jim Hougan's Secret Agenda. As Steve Dorril said in Lobster 8, this is a major event. This essay is in two parts. In the first I make some critical remarks about Secret Agenda's central theses; In the second I speculate about other items on the secret agenda' of Watergate. Part 1 Hougan's first book about parapolitics, Spooks (London 1979), was very interesting but very irritating. A shower of wonderful fragments, little of it was sufficiently well ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 201 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-01.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last | Contents | Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S . Assassins, Narcotics and Watergate Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA's Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA's counter-intelligence chief, James Angleton, had been responsible, and Angleton himself has recently confirmed (to author Edward Jay Epstein) the published suggestions that these stories ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 192 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-05.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last | Contents | Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S . From Political' to Human': the Lessons of Watergate and Vietnam The history of the last century suggests that, to challenge these stultifying forces of expansion and repression, traditional processes must themselves be rejuvenated by fresh inputs of human energy. Traditional modes of political organisation, whether reformist or radical, have little chance by themselves of challenging the CIA's world-wide infrastructure' of political power. In the developed countries, at least, the traumas of a dramatic or prolonged economic recession, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 189 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-26.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last | Contents | Next Issue 49 Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative journalist's care with sources and that simple, transparent style which lets the reporting ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 186 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-38.htm
... Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven Robert Merrit Walterville (OR): TrineDay, 2011, 240 pages, index; p/b , (US) $19.95 www.TrineDay.net This is a very interesting bad book with a misleading title. It's bad because little thought or work appears to have gone into its construction and there is much repetition. The title is doubly misleading: in the first place, little of it – less than 10% I would guess – deals with Watergate. Secondly, the suggestion that Nixon and the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 174 - 15 Aug 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-watergate.pdf
... Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O'Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b ; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn't know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn't the fault of the author, who has done a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O'Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn't run again, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey's chances ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 165 - 21 Jan 2019 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster77/lob77-dirty-tricks.pdf
