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... resources that comprised it were still subordinate elements in American society. Today it not only dominates both parties, but it is also financing threats to both these parties from even further to the right. That change has been achieved partly by money, but partly also with the assistance of deep events: events, such as the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the 1980 October Surprise, Iran-Contra and 9/11, which repeatedly have involved lawbreaking and/or violence, have been mysterious to begin with, and whose mystery has been compounded by systematic falsification in media and internal government records. ' (pp. 102/3 ) 3 Scott looks at the series of linked ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 42 - 28 Feb 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster69/lob69-american-deep-state.pdf
... Plexus, London, 9.99 In 1978 a right-wing American magazine, Spotlight, published an article by former CIA officer Victor Marchetti which claimed that in response to the beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate 'plumbers', had taken part in the assassination of John Kennedy. The admission would be a 'limited hang-out'. Hunt sued Spotlight; Marchetti had -- or was willing to present -- no evidence, and in 1981 Hunt duly won damages large enough to close Spotlight. However, on appeal the verdict was overturned ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 41 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-22.htm
... governments and organisations do conspire. ' 2 Indeed: but how often is 'sometimes'? Unless you have read parapolitics – and I think it a fair assumption that the project's academic members will have read little or none – your perception of the extent of conspiracies by governments and organisations will be a gross underestimate. There is a piece on Watergate on the site,3 for example, which makes the banal point that conspiracy and cock-up often go together but discusses only the more obvious conspiracies within the Nixon White House. The authors appear to know little about Watergate's place in and links to the American national security state revelations in the 1960s and 70s. However this 1 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 17 Jul 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-conspiracy-democracy.pdf
... is one that CCS planned 'left wing' riots and the assassination of Nixon for the Republican Convention of 1972, apparently in the hope of installing Vice President Agnew as some kind of dictator. Although this story is quite widely accepted among the US conspiracy buffs, the exact status it has remains unclear to me. Tackwood linked two of the Watergate 'plumbers', McCord and Hunt, to the LAPD. (The various official Watergate enquiries managed to miss all this.) In 1975 the Los Angeles Police Commission (a civilian body somewhat akin to our Police Committees) ordered 2 million police intelligence files accumulated since the 1950s, to be destroyed. Nothing was done. In 1983 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-03.htm
... demand Tetra must be a success at all costs. ' ( [11] ) Implementing Tetra nation-wide will cost almost 3 billion. Tetra was debated in the House of Commons in March 2005.( [12] ) During the debate several MPs reported their constituents' complains of ill-health generated by the Tetra masts. Watergate: why Spencer Oliver's phone was tapped When the Nixon White House 'plumbers' broke into the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) they placed taps on two phones. One was Larry O'Brien's. This was intelligible: O'Brien was a big Washington operator who knew a lot, including the then not public information that Howard Hughes ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 37 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-24.htm
26. Re: [Lobster #54 (Winter 2007/8)]
... believers or their opposites are fostered by social origins. '( 7 )Not exactly an academic but included for the record is David Aaronovitch who has been touring the country lecturing on what he has learned about 'conspiracies that dominate the world....and why it is we want so much to believe this kind of story. ' Watergate and Dallas 35 years on and the FBI has made available its Watergate case files(9 ) while the Washington Post modestly reminds us of its part in the story 'that brought down a president and forever altered the triangular relationship between government officials, the media and the public. '( 10)Also worth a look are some sample ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-17.htm
... the presence of Roy Cohn, that Lyndon Johnson and Carlos Marcello were behind the JFK assassination. Roy Cohn nodded his head in agreement as both men laughed. ' This is new, mildly interesting but not significant. 'Stone lays out the connections between the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco, the JFK assassination and the fall of Richard Nixon in Watergate. Stone outlines how Nixon manoeuvred furiously to obtain CIA records that would shed light on CIA-Mob connections to the JFK assassination as an "insurance policy" against investigation and impeachment in the Watergate scandal. ' This is a restatement of the thesis that Nixon's references to 'the Bay of Pigs' in communication with DCIA Richard Helms during ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 07 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-man-who-killed-jfk.pdf
... Egil Krogh's investigators had stumbled upon the CIA's unilateral drug smuggling operation, and that in July 1971, President Nixon had declared the burgeoning war on drugs to be a matter of national security. Nixon went after the CIA and quick as a flash, E. Howard Hunt (Conein's comrade from OSS Detachment 202) bungled the bugging of the Watergate Hotel. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who had just been assigned to cover the war on drugs, was approached by the still anonymous Deep Throat, and based on unsubstantiated rumors, began incrementally reporting Nixon's political machinations, thus engendering the Watergate scandal and effectively neutralizing Nixon and his war on drugs. In the summer of 1972 came ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-06.htm
... refuge in the conspiratorial world-view. Melanie Phillips' January 2004 article in the Daily Mail is a model of concern about the growing credulity of the public as evidenced by its taste for conspiracy theories. 1 While she recognises that conspiracies do happen, and cites the Catilinarian 2 and Cato Street conspiracies along with the Cambridge spy ring and Watergate as evidence of her breadth of historical vision, she is in no doubt that'...historical conspiracies are rare. The vast majority of apparently inexplicable events turn out to be caused by chance, accident or individual error or culpability. ' Once that is established she then ropes in an enormous variety of beliefs and world- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 29 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-09.htm
... ) by Robert Kee ( 'exciting, brilliant and profoundly disturbing'). London Review of Book s (6 /7 /89) by R. W. Johnson. This is two complete pages plus, a brilliant summary of the text as well as the best account of the weight of the Wallace material - 'The British Watergate'. The Foot book was raised in Parliament by Ken Livingstone (Hansard 27/6 /89 columns 943 - 952) and by Tam Dalyell (Hansard 8/6 /89 columns 428- 431). Both were met with variations on the government's basic theme of 'It's all been investigated and there is nothing to be said ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-07.htm
