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[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]

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[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]

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[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] college, is channelled anonymously through the cadre institutions of the Northeast elite and moves to the Midwest. With no traceable political debts he finds himself a US Senator, and before his first term expires he is on the Democratic ticket for president. Obama is the apogee of the Reagan Revolution, the entirely synthetic, digital […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Mob and was being asset stripped by it. Even so, the Nixon government didn’t try to block the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970,8 promoted by Senator John McClellan. One part of that was the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. Marshall quotes Clark Mollenhoff’s claim that the 1970 act was used […]

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