Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s […]
Hernando Calvo Ospina Translated by Stephen Wilkinson and Alasdair Holden London and Sterling,VA.: Pluto Press, 2002, pb, £10.99 This is the first book to document the on-going attempt by the Bacardi company to both help overthrow the Fidelista Cuban Government and sabotage the commercial interests of competing, Cuban-sourced, rum companies. It also documents the … Read more
John Pilger Vintage Books, London,1998, £8.99 pb As one of the few serious radicals in this country to whom the mass media pay any attention, Pilger is important. This is a collection of essays, a few already published but most written for this book. We are back in what is recognisably Pilgerland: the corruptions of … Read more
[…] that Winston Churchill and his son Randolph (along with Anthony Eden) were ‘the abject slaves of Bernie Baruch’. The LEL shared the DAC’s obsession with the ‘ hidden hand’. One 1950s LEL pamphlet, The Menace of World Government, claimed ‘There is a hidden power, which only to close students of international politics is a […]
[…] Moon’s and Kim’s purposes, which may have been perfectly complementary? Or were they sent by counterintelligence expert Kim to infiltrate the UC and manipulate it for his hidden purposes? This will probably remain a mystery, as there is circumstantial evidence to suggest all three interpretations and not enough hard data to conclusively resolve the […]
[…] discovery (sic) of ‘interest groups’ and ‘pressure groups’. The parapolitical perspective, on the other hand, the conspiracy perspective, takes for granted that there are likely to be hidden influences at work because there is a mountain of historical evidence which shows hidden influences at work: not giant world-conquering conspiracies by the Masons or some […]
[…] intelligence personnel, they in fact refer to different sorts of actions. According to former Office of Strategic Services (OSS) operative Christopher Felix (pseudonym) clandestine operations are ‘ hidden but not disguised’, whereas covert operations are ‘disguised but not hidden’. Thus the former would apply to a group of camoflaged armed men seeking to disembark […]
[…] dollar. (2) The seventh largest company in the US, supposedly dominating its market and generating handsome returns, in reality had generated a debt mountain. The debt was hidden in 2000-3000 offshore partnerships set up and managed with thousands of as yet unknown partners. Fastow and Skilling made yet more millions from this. The more […]
[…] existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not exactly clear, but it was also the location of Japanese war plunder hidden there by an organisation known as ‘The Golden Lily’, a covert agency of the Japanese government with its headquarters in Manila. Other substantial amounts of loot […]
[…] Jews were recent immigrants, hysteria against German ‘spies’ and ‘aliens’ became readily mixed with anti-semitism when WWI began. Some sections of the press talked of the ‘ Hidden Hand’ which, in the words of one historian, was believed to be: “a confederacy of evil men taking their orders from Berlin, dedicated to the downfall […]
