[…] and described, with 60 pages of fully sourced notes and 16 documentary appendices. (The last of the latter, which I had never heard of before, is an FBI damage-control ‘tickler’ (undated) which includes the stark phrase: ‘Basic facts yet contradictions on Oswald in Mexico; photo not him’.) Wrone is brisk to the point of […]
[…] distinction as an Army officer and as a high-ranking CIA official in times of enormous world tension’. Breuer cited Ted Shackley and W, Raymond Wannall of the FBI as two of his sources and wrote: ‘One of JM WAVE’s most notable successes was in convincing a ball-bearing manufacturer in Frankfurt, West Germany, to make […]
[…] 1967), one finds a review of a pro-Warren Commission book, The Scavengers: Critics and the Warren Report, by Richard Warren Lewis and Lawrence Schiller. The reviewer, former FBI agent and Ramparts contributor, William Turner, is particularly annoyed (p. 163) over the way Lewis and Schiller take a cheap shot at Sylvia Meagher by pointing […]
[…] one of wry disbelief, normally ending with a dismissive comment from the cops. But such tales crop up with increasing regularity, as Christian Identity types challenge the FBI to raid their compounds and a group calling itself ‘Sons of the Gestapo’ derails an Amtrak passenger train…. Garrisonia The same day that the US papers […]
[…] inch diameter 4 power scope. Technical ignorance allows a lot of bullshit to float by. Hinkley’s ‘explosive bullets’ are another example. I happen to know that had he been using what the FBI claimed, no one would have even gone to the hospital. Maximum penetration would have been less than a half inch of flesh.”
[PDF file]: […] was also ignorant of Baird’s many organized crime connections, a failing that later hearings and news accounts never corrected. Today, with the benefit of facts gleaned from FBI files, subsequent Congressional investigations, and journalistic investigations of organized crime, it becomes clearer that Baird was engaged in profitable insider transactions with a long-lasting and densely […]
[PDF file]: […] surveys of houses of prostitution’ as a prelude to enforcing the ‘White Slave Traffic Act,’ also known as the Mann Act.1 5 As one historian of the FBI has observed: ‘by exaggerating the danger of organized vice, portraying it as a real menace to the American society, and by broadly interpreting the law, the […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘smoking gun’, was a taped Oval Office conversation in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could […]
[PDF file]: […] 978-1-936296-86-6 Author Don Adams was already investigating the JFK assassination before it had even happened. On 13 November 1963 he was called at his home by an FBI superior and told to track down and interview one Joseph Milteer of Quitman, Georgia. Milteer was a prominent white supremacist and Klansman, whose activities and influence […]
[PDF file]: JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints Garrick Alder Mac Wallace: The FBI print examination Further to my essay ‘Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt’ (Lobster 68), I submitted an FOI request to the US Department of Justice to obtain documents involved in the print examination that resulted in the FBI’s 1999 finding of […]
