[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]: […] 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]: […] 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]: […] she calls ‘conspiracy facts’ – and conspiracy theories, that in many ways serve to distract from, and cover-up, what is actually going on. As she points out: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments, the aborted 1960s false flag Operation Northwoods and other US government plots were all, at some point, labeled wild […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] page 118. John Kaylock claimed to have met Oswald in Punta Gorda, Florida, shortly before the assassination.2 2 A week after the assassination, CIA hand and future Watergate burglar Frank (Fiorini) Sturgis alleged that he had met Oswald in Florida in the days prior to the assassination itself, a claim that is surely a […]
[PDF file]: […] and under proper supervision so that we never cross over…..’ Remember, the US was coming out of Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy […]
[PDF file]: […] with the Soviet Union was the background. In the UK it provided the context for IRD to be reigned back. In the US, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of CIA activities in the US and abroad, and the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976, there was a purge in the […]
[PDF file]: […] I guess there are limits to what Times readers can be expected to digest over breakfast. Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]
