[PDF file]: […] assassination researchers, Mellen does not take this seriously. In her case, this is presumably due to a career-long support for Jim Garrison whose inquiries focused on the CIA. Nonetheless Professor Mellen has written a very good book, thoroughly documented and full of interesting and new bits and pieces.1 1 If you haven’t read Robert […]
[PDF file]: […] or not it was a Communist front! As for Spender’s involvement, he provides a convincing argument in favour of Spender knowing that Encounter was funded by the CIA. He had, after all, worked for the Political Warfare Executive during the war and was certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, […]
[PDF file]: […] the coast. In conversation, Mason recalled, Solomon talked about the pleasures of taking certain drugs and hinted, half-jokingly, that he was or had been connected to the CIA (in World War Two he had served in military intelligence). Mason also recalled that Solomon ‘became nervy’ when someone present casually mentioned that Mason was friendly […]
[PDF file]: […] In this book deHaven-Smith does two main things. He traces the current use of the expression ‘conspiracy theorist’ back to the notorious 1967 memo issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that […]
[PDF file]: […] as communism, it appeared that Eden’s diplomacy represented a great lost opportunity. The unravelling of the French position in Vietnam and the role of the US (and CIA) in this formed the basis of the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955). and (2) the announcement in July 1955 of the lowest ever unemployment […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in attempts to sink a boatload of buses in the Thames in 1964. It’s an eclectic brew which reflects its editor’s passions and interests, so […]
