The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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? Brain waves T hree significant pieces warning us about the […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

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[PDF file]: […] Cielo Drive had become a gathering place for ‘liberal Hollywood’ figures such as Mama Cass, Warren Beatty and Jane Fonda – all of whom were reportedly under FBI surveillance. Abigail Folger, one of the Cielo victims, was an outspoken civil rights activist. Hoover’s memo says, ‘An anonymous letter is being prepared for Bureau approval […]

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[…] ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.28 Both men […]

The view from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. *new* Simon says Regular contributor to these columns, Simon Matthews, has a new book out. Looking for a New England, the sequel to his Psychedelic Celluloid, is published on 28 January 2021. Details of […]

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[…] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 militia called Right Sector, led by […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

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[PDF file]: […] JOSEPH MILTEER? From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle Don Adams Walterville, OR: TrineDay, 2012. x + 226 pps., illustrations, index, $24.95. The First Rule of FBI Club: Protect the Bureau! The codicil to which is: Protecting the Bureau trumps Truth, Justice, and everything else the great Republic holds dear. This was how […]

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[…] their gated community 8 9 or 10 11 4 showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.12 Both men […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

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[PDF file]: Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’ Garrick Alder Lee Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’ has always aroused suspicions. Written in Oswald’s distinctive hand, and complete with his dyslexic traits, it ostensibly records his stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very […]

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[…] See note 38 above. A political tactic aptly summarised by US President Lyndon Johnson, who remarked that he was keeping J Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI because ‘It’s probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.’ 42 16 Right Sector The chief entryists to […]

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[…] their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 8 9 or 10 11 4 FBI agents identified Bayoumi as having helped the two young Saudis rent an apartment, set up a bank account and take care of other needs.12 Both men […]

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