[…] Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we now know was four days after White […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers … Read more
[…] committee, Denton and Morris describe and analyse a key moment in the US’s post-war history. Kefauver’s televised questioning of various mobsters had made him, hitherto an obscure senator from Tennessee, into a national political figure, as well-known at the time as another junior senator – the one from Wisconsin, Joe McCarthy. The Kefauver committee […]
[…] The slaughtered villagers were recorded as enemy dead and Kerrey received the Silver Star for the massacre. He went on to become governor of Nebraska, a US senator and a university president in New York.(10)There were hundreds of such raids and everyone killed was claimed as Vietcong. The large number of women killed were […]
[…] the Gemstone File. Words cannot adequately describe its unsettling aura of psychopathology. Much of the page features a photocopied portrait shot of Joan Kennedy (at the time, Senator Edward Kennedy’s wife), as originally printed in Good Housekeeping. Above it, Roberts reproduces the magazine’s masthead, then pens in the following indicia: ‘PUBLISHED BY HEARST CORP. […]
[…] I presume, in seeing Richard Tomlinson rubbished, which chapter 16 of the Paget report does.) Israeli lobby In December 2006 a letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, about the Israeli lobby in the US, began circulating on the Net. Its most striking paragraph was this: ‘I can tell you from […]
[…] concern about foreign influence or interference.(13) The Lugar Report I draw these criteria from The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance, a 2006 report prepared by the NED for Senator Richard G. Lugar(14) who is dumbfounded that all the US’s largesse is rejected. But even though the report tells us that democracy building as a policy […]
[…] previously mentioned Coalition For Peace Through Strength. (CPS-US) Also speaking at the March 1982 British meeting were Morton Blackwell and Dick Minard. Blackwell was chief advisor to Senator Gordon Humphrey and Exec. Director of ECUD. He led the day-to-day assault on Warnke and represented, perhaps,’ the heart and soul of the ultra-conservative arm of […]
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
