[…] death of Labour Prime Minister Norm Kirk in August 1974 began a rather weird period in New Zealand politics. Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, […]
[…] that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and his students over the past four years, including information […]
[…] Roberts, to his mother, copies of which were given to the recently deceased American conspiracy theorist and researcher, Mae Brussel, at the end of 1972, just as Watergate was flickering into life. In 1977 Brussel described Roberts’ letters to a friend of mine as ‘repetitious, giberous, libelous and unsubstantiated’; which, coming from Mae Brussel, […]
[…] This is two complete pages plus, a brilliant summary of the text as well as the best account of the weight of the Wallace material -‘The British Watergate’. The Foot book was raised in Parliament by Ken Livingstone (Hansard 27/6/89 columns 943 – 952) and by Tam Dalyell (Hansard 8/6/89 columns 428- 431). Both […]
I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
[…] has the distinction of being just about the only serious magazine on the American left which continued to take the assassination seriously all the way through to Watergate. Ramparts published Peter Dale Scott’s Dallas, Watergate and Beyond, one of the seminal essays on the subject. Cowitz know that it wasn’t Oswald and Sirhan. This […]
[…] The system is able to bring a maverick agency (like the FBI under Hoover) back into line. The classic example of this is the Presidency, Nixon and Watergate. Here is an interesting case where a President was perceived by other elements in the system as amassing more than his share of the power and […]
[…] it. We gave out copies of Lobster 11, talked briefly, answered one or two questions, said this story of covert manipulation of British politics was the British Watergate – that was the heading on our press release – and got back on the train. I thought that would be that. The journalists would read […]
[…] Irangate, Covert Affairs, and the Secret War in Laos (New York: John Wiley, 1992), 283-84; cf. Robert Parry, Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq (Arlington, VA: Media Consortium, 2004), 136, 139. Patrick Cockburn, “Russia ‘planned Chechen war before bombings,’” Independent, 1/29/00, http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/features/caucasus/news/stepashin_confession.htm. Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, “The Smashing of […]
[…] growth in the general public uneasiness about the current aims of government due primarily to the harm done to the moral standing of the western democracies by Watergate and CIA activity the ultra-left (sic) have been quick to capitalise on the discontent and sensationalised reports against the security establishment and in particular the police, […]
