Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

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[PDF file]: […] of background details not discussed in Legend, that forms the basis of this essay.6 In Psychology Today Mr Epstein records that he took advice from ‘a former CIA research director’ who helpfully ‘mentioned that the agency had on occasion used a graphologist to help crack difficult cases’. Mr Epstein describes feeling ‘startled’ by the […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

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[PDF file]: […] the assignment with glee. In late 1971 he moved over to the Committee to Re-elect the President from the Plumbers team, where he had worked with former CIA officer Howard Hunt on the Fielding break-in as part of their efforts to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the highly embarrassing secret history of the Vietnam […]

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[…] of Russiasupported President Yanukovich in Ukraine. But the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother […]

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[…] hadn’t come from a Russian computer hack, because he collected it for Wikileaks from an employee of the DNC.5 It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians […]

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

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[…] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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[…] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]

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[…] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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[…] Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the region in the 1960s and 70s, and thus knew about CIA involvement in the […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] Asil Nadir. Then I had a crazy idea. The website of the Central Intelligence Agency offered the public a searchable document archive. I typed ‘supergun’ into the CIA search engine. Up popped Project Babylon, the Iraqi Supergun. Here was a US government report on the very subject that concerned me, released under freedom of […]

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