In Lobster 40 I wrote about a long-term operation by elements within the US military and intelligence services to disinform those interested in UFOs. More information on this has subsequently come to light. The MAJESTIC mystery solved? The real author of this section is Martin Cannon: I have just rewritten his e-mail to me. The … Read more
[…] it.(15) A considerable chunk of the 9/11 ‘skeptics’ do not believe that a passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon: they think it was a jet fighter, a missile or a drone. From their position, this exhibition must be a fraud. But if it is a fraud, part of the wider 9/11 fraud, that is […]
[…] started his Presidency as a cold war liberal whose outlook resembled that of Alden Pyle in The Quiet American, the Bay of Pigs humiliation and the Cuban Missile Crisis put him on a sharp learning curve. At the end of his life he was talking of the need to build a world ‘safe for […]
From David Guyatt: David Hambling’s comments in Lobster 39 (Feedback) underscore the extreme difficulties involved in firstly accessing, then corroborating and, finally, reporting stories that are as obviously sensitive as Operation Black Cat and Operation Black Dog. It is easy to raise what appear to be realistic technical objections, but the Black Dog story consumed … Read more
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. … Read more
[…] ‘have organised a “genuine” right-wing bombing at Bologna station in order to reinforce the idea that the Itavia disaster was caused by a bomb rather than a missile, and thus strengthen the alibi of whichever NATO air force had been responsible for the disaster’ (p. 170). Evidence since his book was published has tended […]
[PDF file]: […] sole discretion of the Cuban exiles – but it would be launched from outside the US and directed at Cuban targets only. The near-apocalypse of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) had made the Kennedy White House shy of taking any more potshots at the Soviet troops stationed 90 miles off Florida. On the […]
[…] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.71 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] Thanks to Roger Steer for bringing to my attention an interesting piece in the London Review of Books, a review of two new books about the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.72 The books show in some detail that much of the received version of that event in the West – brave JFK stood up […]
[PDF file]: […] the President that he must recognise that to accept a communist Cuba would raise ‘the question not only of American prestige but of American survival’.32 The Cuban Missile Crisis began its most dangerous phase later that month, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff echoing Clare’s invasion policy.33 After the Cuban crisis had receded, Allen […]
