Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] maybe. 1 unit established in the White House ostensibly to investigate and prevent leaks of information: anything goes. There was a pool of ex-CIA, ex-military and ex- FBI people in Washington looking to supplement their pensions. The Nixon team didn’t know much about this world and picked people on the say-so of others. Thus […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] been reduced to a tiny rump. Why they did not do so is not known. My guess would be that they were told not to by the FBI, which was letting Soviet money into the CPUSA. In the early 1970s, what we might call anxious patriots believed the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’. […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] with Surikov at the Hotel Bristol in Vienna Petrov ‘04 and I think of Indira Singh who lost her job at J.P. Morgan after she notified the FBI about Ptech the hi-tech Islamist firm bankrolled by Yasin al-Qadi, a wealthy Saudi investor who has been officially designated as a terrorism financier with contracts at […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of the project’s founders, seems to grasp the connection between the behaviour of states and conspiracy theories. In a piece on the 26 27 In ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call’. There is no mention of the call in Jefferson Morley’s recent biography of James Angleton, The Ghost: The Secret Life of […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents) . . . they are described as working for Bishop Reporting (sic). From memory I think the Office of Security had clipped this piece from […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI This site also carries substantial recent essays on the British Army’s Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 38 This is discussed at or . 39 […]

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[…] Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI This site also carries substantial recent essays on the British Army’s Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 38 This is discussed at or . 39 […]

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[…] Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within Trump’s circle that the FBI was a part of a ‘deep state’ conspiracy to prevent his election. In October 2020 Durham was appointed a Special Counsel. His investigations have led to […]

Suddenly in September?

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[PDF file]: […] told by the Bush White House that the air was safe to breathe.6 Under legal pressure from the families of 9/11 victims, Biden has now said more FBI material will be opened up.7 In the UK there is the demand to reopen the inquest into the death in the North Tower of British citizen […]

JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

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[PDF file]: […] about his spelling and lack of grammatical knowledge. Mackenzie’s version of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie […]

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