[…] of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody outside Whitehall did. But we do have ‘Watergate politics’ and have had them since the […]
[…] of national security. Nixon went after the CIA and quick as a flash, E. Howard Hunt (Conein’s comrade from OSS Detachment 202) bungled the bugging of the Watergate Hotel. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who had just been assigned to cover the war on drugs, was approached by the still anonymous Deep Throat, and […]
[…] the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a […]
Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[…] verifiability we shall define the ‘establishment media’ as including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time-Life, Newsweek, Readers Digest and the three major television networks). Since Watergate, and the dramatic collapse of the press-government anti-Communist consensus, it in possible that this relative immunity is no longer unassailable. First in conjunction with Vietnam, then […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Involving Foreign Leaders – Senate Report No 94-465, 94th Congress. 1st. Session (November 20, 1975), pp200-06. Henceforth cited as Assassination Report McCoy. pp 54-55 U.S. Congress. Senate, Watergate Hearings, Vol. 21 p9750 J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, Viking, 1976): p14: Watergate Hearings, Vol.1 pp249-50 Assassination Report, p131; […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] its publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving ‘Transnationalised Repression’. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies ( Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview […]
[…] is a professionally produced, 32-page quarterly magazine whose primary focus is the Kennedy assassination but whose ambit is actually the entire period from JFK’s assassination through to Watergate – and beyond. Vol. 2 no. 3, for example is a special edition on Watergate. But it includes a piece on Alger Hiss – who launched […]
