A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

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[PDF file]: […] Commission it so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

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[PDF file]: […] to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and Maclean defections to […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

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[PDF file]: […] to underestimate their enemies. The USA secret service learned quickly, after a sluggish beginning, especially its signals interception, but was not as good as it boasted (the FBI claimed to have invented and run the ‘double-cross’ system, which I always understood was a British achievement – insofar as it didn’t go back to Biblical […]

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[…] legacy. The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] I noticed in a review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power7 that Aoki had been working for the FBI at the time. What would the American left have looked like without the federal government’s involvement? 5 6 7 4 radiation emitted by mobile phones, their […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

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[PDF file]: […] encouraged him kill Kennedy. Following the Kennedy assassination, and even before the end of 1963, the party Oswald ostensibly attended had come to the attention of the FBI agent in Mexico City who had interviewed the participants and discounted the affair. Sylvia Duran’s cousin was the Mexican poet and writer Elena Garro de Paz. […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

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[PDF file]: […] House and journalist Jack Anderson, who was reporting on Watergate. ‘Meanwhile, others in the White House sought simply to discredit Anderson. They called in investigators from the FBI, the IRS, and even a high-powered private eye service, which at the same time was investigating Maheu on behalf of the Hughes organization. The CIA’s Office […]

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[…] shot NO basilar views (from underneath – the underside of the brain), yet half of the Archives brain photos ARE basilar views. But it gets worse. Former FBI agent Francis O’Neill (who was at the JFK autopsy) testified during his 1997 ARRB deposition that more than one half of JFK’s brain was missing when […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

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[PDF file]: […] long chats.’ Johnson immediately asked aides to find out who Peck was and in August that year a memo to his secretary Juanita Roberts stated that the FBI had been unable to find anything indicating a family connection between Peck and Johnson. Peck had previously written to Johnson in 1965 and in that letter […]

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