A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] sort of terrain does the armourplated crustacean cover? Recent issues have examined the impact of naval sonar devices on whales (it kills them), an alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in […]
[PDF file]: […] Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob Woodward’s Fear was an instant international bestseller, with sales promoted by both his Watergate reputation and by the fascination that the deranged President Trump excites. Could the man who helped bring down the last crook to occupy the White House, […]
[PDF file]: […] Israeli request for 200 tons of military equipment, Golan claimed that Kissinger had ‘no intention of fulfilling those needs’. Left in control because of Nixon’s preoccupation with Watergate, Golan claims that Kissinger fed the Israeli Ambassador with ‘expressions of solidarity and empty promises’, but made no move on any shipments. Golan suggests the delay […]
[PDF file]: […] 1 ‘Just a Drop Can Kill’, for The New Republic, 6 May 1967. From then on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of […]
[PDF file]: […] Castro specifically mentions the CIA-backed JMWAVE maritime raiders. These anti-Castro Cuban commandos were infiltrated into Cuba with high powered rifles that, as JMWAVE boat captain and later Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez said, ‘were not to be used for hunting rabbits’. (Some of the JMWAVE commandos were captured and paraded on Cuban TV with their […]
[PDF file]: […] Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to work for it himself, […]
[PDF file]: […] the left – what we might call the paranoid left – which was looking at the American and British secret states in the wake of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Wilson plots and changes in policing and the rise of the ‘strong state’. Yet, looking back at the last 40 years or […]
[PDF file]: […] many reproductions of pages from the address book with Weberman seeing things that are just not there. To take one example, Frank Fiorini Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars and a familiar face to the JFK critical community, features prominently. Weberman has this: ‘The name FIORINI appeared twice in Oswald’s address book disguised as […]
[PDF file]: […] number of analysts in 1960s and 70s to explain the tumult of those times: the assassinations of the President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Watergate scandal, and the moral and strategic disaster that was the Vietnam War. The late Carl Oglesby in his book The Yankee and Cowboy War (1976), for […]
[PDF file]: […] that the KGB had nothing at all to do with Kennedy’s assassination. Yet if that was the CIA’s intent, Epstein sorely disappointed the Agency. In a post- Watergate nation deeply cynical about government cover-ups, Legend offered its own version of a government deception; namely, the CIA’s reliance on a false Soviet ‘defector’ who claimed […]
