[…] – in the first Clinton administration, Webster Hubell, an Arkansas friend of the Clintons, mentioned this in his memoir. Hubbell wrote a couple of memos to the FBI and forgot about it. He then lost the job when he was busted for padding his billing hours while a lawyer with the firm which had […]
[…] of organised crime. Which is to say the FBN was a political loose cannon in both overseas and domestic policy, engaged in continual bureaucratic warfare with the FBI, CIA, and local police forces, repeatedly discovering things that were supposed to stay hidden and trying to arrest ‘the wrong people’. In the introduction Valentine offers […]
[…] very good issue, for in addition to Hayes there is a piece on the CIA’s co-opting of civilian air planes for covert missions, discussion of Oklahoma, an FBI agent provocateur, and an essay by Professor Carrie Foster of the Coalition on Political Assassinations Speakers Bureau, ‘Conspiracy is as American as Apple pie’. Must be […]
[…] This ‘act of conscience’ also, albeit accidentally, contributed to the demise of President Richard Nixon, whose felonious minions had allowed CIA officer E. Howard Hunt and erstwhile FBI agent G. Gordon Liddy to burglarize confidential files from Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office, in a slap-happy attempt to discredit the anti-War movement by showing that Ellsberg was […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] That is five years before Dr King was murdered, and while President Kennedy and his brother Robert were still in office. October 15, 1963 On this date, FBI Intelligence Operations chief William C Sullivan disseminated a memo. In it, he announced the completion and imminent circulation of a dossier entitled ‘Communism and the Negro […]
