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... ) poison anti-war protesters. Phrases like 'the American Gestapo' were used in the 1970s on the American left to describe the activities of the state against them. Merritt's confessions here, if only half true, make those claims seem a little less ridiculous. Readers who have been paying attention to the LBJ- dunnit version of the Kennedy assassination in the past few years in these columns will recognise the name of Merritt's co- author, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the US Department of Justice the affidavit of Billy Sol Estes, which named LBJ and others as being the perpetrators of the Dallas killing. As a young lawyer in Washington at the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 22 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-watergate.pdf
... Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b , (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would not believe his account of them?); and although the book is massively documented, it has no index, which is bizarre. North states at the beginning of his concluding chapter: 'And now we know the truth. President Kennedy and Lee Oswald were murdered by Joe Civello's Pearl Street ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 114 - 22 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-betrayal.pdf
... from Nato's Supreme Allied Commander? Ah, closure Doug Thompson, while communications director for the re- election campaign of Congressman Manuel Lujan of New Mexico, met former governor of Texas, John Connally, on a plane in 1982. In the course of the conversation Thompson asked him if he thought Lee Harvey Oswald fired the gun that killed Kennedy? 'Absolutely not, ' Connally said. 'I do not, for one second, believe the conclusions of the Warren Commission. ' So why not say so? 'Because I love this country and we needed closure at the time. I will never speak out publicly about what I believe. '17 This is the base line for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Mary's Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in the 1950s included many of Washington's ruling elite. As far as it was then possible for a woman to be an insider, she was one. She was good-looking, talented and financially independent. After divorcing Meyer in 1958 she became a bit of a bohemian amongst the Wasps of Georgetown – a painter, a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-marys-mosaic.pdf
... the more recently elected Liberal Democrat MP's: a primary allegiance to personal liberty and a belief in free market economics.4 None of this mattered very much in 2006 or in 2007 when Gordon Brown finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell and Cable, Brown would have assumed that the Liberal Democrats would never do a deal with the Conservatives. But in late 2007 things changed. Firstly, Brown did not call an election to legitimise his position. Secondly, Sir Menzies Campbell – a friend of his – was ousted as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Campbell's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 23 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him and tape recorded the conversation. Amongst which was this: SOMERSETT: I think Kennedy is coming here on the eighteenth, or something like that to make some kind of speech...... MILTEER: You can bet your bottom dollar he is going to have a lot to say about the Cubans. There are so many of them here. SOMERSETT: Yeah. Well, he will have a thousand ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 27 Aug 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-joseph-milteer.pdf
... and Guatemala – remember Blowtorch Bob, the Americans' proxy psychopath in El Salvador? – is missing. Around half a million dead Central Americans do not merit comment, apparently. The domestic political spin-off, the Iran-Contra scandal, is there en passant. As are many other things. His introduction tell us that the Kennedy assassination was a landmark: but of all the hundreds of books on that event published in the period covered by these essays, he reviews only two of the least significant, both of which recycle the absurd Oswald-did-it cover story. Powers may think the Kennedy assassination was a landmark but he hasn't bothered to understand it ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 27 Aug 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-misc-reviews.pdf
... guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/09/ brian-crozier?newsfeed=true> 9 On which see David Teacher's enormous essay, downloadable at <www.cryptome.org/2012/01/cercle-pinay-6i.pdf>. Caro flunks it Looking at the role of LBJ in the Kennedy assassination has proved to be too difficult for Robert Caro. In The Passage of Power (2012), the fourth volume of his widely lauded biography of LBJ, – covering his accession to the presidency – while he devotes much attention to the Bobby Baker scandal of 1962/3 , he omits Billie Sol Estes and the Department of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 14 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... in the publication that 'he wanted to destroy British Establishment society as it was as a result of the 1956 Suez debacle. ' The most significant figure he employed at Queen was Robin Douglas-Home, nephew of Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Robin Douglas-Home, who counted himself a friend of both Frank Sinatra and John F. Kennedy, appears to have had access to quite a considerable variety of interesting information. On 31 July 1962 Queen published the first piece of gossip linking John Profumo to Christine Keeler and Eugene Ivanov. It is not known who supplied Queen and/or Robin Douglas-Home with this information, but its appearance was a significant part of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-004.pdf
... commissions of the Church had the task of integrating these 'miracles' and authorising limited veneration when belief in them could not be suppressed. No doubt commissions and some limited disclosures by the military and scientific bureaucracy serve the same function in the US. Whatever UFOs might be, it is certainly absurd to discount them entirely. The assassination of the Kennedys (unlike the murders of black Americans such as King, Evers, Malcolm X et al) created a special category of sainthood. At the popular level the investigations are far more like exercises in veneration than concern with the implications of these murders for the religious belief in the USA and its corporate-political hierarchy. When concessions are ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-062.pdf
