The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

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[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 […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

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[PDF file]: […] but below master sergeant. Rodriguez was below the rank of master sergeant and hence a ‘buck sergeant’. discussed mess duty in the Marines. On 30 November 1963, FBI SA John Schaller interviewed Powers. Powers told Schaller that when he and Oswald were stationed in the Philippines for a few months in 1958, ‘OSWALD was […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

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[PDF file]: […] The documents have been debunked over and over again, but phantom things die phantom deaths and so they still keep coming up decades later. In 1988 the FBI investigated the alleged leak of the documents and concluded that they were bogus. However, as a 2017 FOIA request revealed, the FBI conducted its investigation in […]

Last post for Oswald

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[PDF file]: […] the Nixie parcel and the FBI’s interviews with Ruth Paine and her housemate, Lee’s wife Marina Oswald. On 20 February 1964 Irving postal inspector Roy Armstrong told FBI interviewers that by inquiring in Irving and Dallas, he had somehow ascertained that the delivery slip of 20 November related to a magazine delivered to Mrs […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] and Repression 1955-1972 Aaron J Leonard London: Repeater Books, 2023, £12.99, p/b John Newsinger In 2020 Aaron Leonard published his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of […]

Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth and the Battle for Our Democracy by Kash Pramod Patel

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[PDF file]: […] supported the 6 January coup attempt. All those arrested during the Capitol riot have been pardoned, and Trump is busy weaponizing both the US military and the FBI. As far as possible, those institutions – which were vital to the coup failing – are being transformed into institutions loyal to him and not the […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] supported the 6 January coup attempt. All those arrested during the Capitol riot have been pardoned, and Trump is busy weaponizing both the US military and the FBI. As far as possible, those institutions – which were vital to the coup failing – are being transformed into institutions loyal to him and not the […]

View from Bridge

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[…] But it also needs a rebuttal because Gatehouse has the matter backwards. It was the failure of the co-opted White House press corps and those on the FBI beat – or in some cases their editors – to investigate and report serial misconduct in the early 1990s that fed mistrust of establishment media, leaving […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

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[PDF file]: […] vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti-Communist informant for the FBI claimed to have learnt that the Communist Party was In fact three assassins were apprehended and served token sentences. The ringleader, Michael Townley became a federal […]

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