[PDF file]: RING OF SPIES: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Cheltenham: The History Press, 2020, £20 Simon Matthews Flick through the 70 or so free view channels on your TV and you’ll come across at least half a dozen that specialise in slightly off-beat, but decently made and […]
[…] silence of the Washington political establishment. As for the various intelligence and law enforcement agencies, first and foremost they had to bury their links with Oswald. The FBI had to conceal the fact that they knew of Oswald but had not kept tabs on him; or, worse, that he was working for them in […]
[…] have already analysed and it need not concern us here.(9) Harold Covington revisited I have summarised elsewhere the available evidence on the possibility of his being an FBI asset, since when there have been three published references to Covington which carry the debate forward.(10) The first is Searchlight’s statement of April 1995 that when […]
[…] When the Dallas police grabbed him in the Texas Theatre, a gun was heard to misfire. The Warren Report put this down to Oswald’s gun but an FBI weapons expert: “found nothing to indicate that this (Oswald’s) weapon’s firing pin had struck the primer of any of these cartridges.” (11) Again, Oswald’s reactions at […]
[…] truth is what the truth is. It gets harder to swallow. Pepper has found apparent links to Dallas and Jack Ruby! After the assassination a young and FBI agent went to inspect a car, a white Mustang, which they thought might have been involved in the assassination. This is quite odd. Pepper doesn’t state […]
[…] been field tested and proven… S and CS will give you the know-how you need.’ Includes: Learning the Basics; Uncrackable E-mail (Two interesting articles on how the FBI cracks PGP email and how to protect yourself – requiring, in the extreme, some dedication); Security Software; Surveillance Codes (codewords used by surveillance teams). FAS Public […]
[…] and 544 Camp Street. The building was part-rented by William Guy Bannister, a racist, violent anti-communist, and member of the John Birch Society. Bannister served in the FBI and had risen to be Special Agent-in-Charge of the Bureau’s Chicago office. After retiring from the Feds he had been appointed assistant superintendent of the New […]
[…] Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 478pps, $29.95. The commonly accepted view is that the Warren Commission was a prisoner of its sources (i.e. the FBI) and that, coupled with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), resulted in […]
[…] Oswald know about this? Was he indeed one of the conspirators, but a loose cannon who could be conveniently pushed overboard? Or was he in fact an FBI penetration agent? This suggestion should not be ignored. Threats to Kennedy’s life had been uttered by all kinds of strange groups and it would have been […]
[…] of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find himself part of history. DELOACH, Cartha D. Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995. 440 pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Hoover’s right-hand man offers up his apologia for Hoover […]
