[…] revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, according to the obit, was told by Bill Ruckelshaus, acting head of the FBI, in 1973 that he ‘could not exclude a criminal proceeding against the president’. The obit says that in this way Emery was handed a ‘sensational scoop’ […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] report from her office because she stashed it in her tights.2 Amusing as this old-skool method of smuggling might be, I discovered something even funnier in the FBI transcript of their first encounter with Ms Winner. When a phalanx of FBI agents arrived at Ms Winner’s house to execute a search warrant, they asked […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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. […]
[PDF file]: […] Union. Copies of the book can be ordered online or downloaded free as a pdf file at Sibel Edmonds speaks Sibel Edmonds was a translator for the FBI and found herself listening to FBI wiretap recordings of a Turkish government operation to buy US politicians, diplomats and – ultimately – nuclear technology. She was […]
