[…] Anastasio Somoza, the patron of Torrijos’ current enemy Orlando Bosch. According to an FBI report on Frank Sturgis in 1972, when Hunt recruited him and Barker for Watergate “sources in Miami say that he is now associated with organised crime activities”. (emphasis added) (56) When this FBI claim was made part of the highly […]
[…] who, years before, had arranged for the Bay of Pigs; who had used Artime, the alleged would-be assassin of Castro and Torrijos, to launder the White House Watergate defence money; and whose close friend, Bebe Rebozo, was directly involved with Cuban exiles prominent in both the efforts to reoccupy Cuba and the international narcotics […]
[PDF file]: Deep Kiss How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all Garrick Alder At the height of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed […]
[…] of Deep Throat’s identity. Basically, I conclude that if Throat was a prominent member of the Nixon Administration, well-known to the public at the time of the Watergate affair, then he can only have been General Alexander Haig. But there is no reason to assume that. Throat could just as easily have been a […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (Mr. Campbell-Savours) If such allegations were raised in the United States, Congressional Committees of inquiry would be set up to examine them. That is what happened over Watergate, and it is happening today over the supply of weapons to Iran. When Americans feel that their constitution is being challenged by anti-democratic bodies, the first […]
[…] milieu without governmental supervision. A similar process, culminating in a similar privatisation of covert operations assets, can be discerned in the recent history of America, particularly since Watergate. Here too, although much less is known, there has been a purge of CIA, a dispersal of former CIA Cuban operatives into new multinational networks, and […]
[…] AVBC) in Miami.(40) These plans for organised governmental violence were by no means wholly forestalled by the timely exposure of Hunt’s Cubans at the July 17 1972 Watergate break-in. Some of them have survived Nixon’s fall from power and are today officially established under the guidance of narcotics control. To see how this could […]
[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the […]
[PDF file]: White House Call Girl The Real Watergate Story Phil Stanford Washington State: Feral Press, 2013, $17.95, p/b Feralhouse.com O ne of the unanswered questions in the received versions of the Watergate affair was: why did the White House ‘plumbers’ want to bug the phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? […]
