[PDF file]: […] spy ring. As president, JFK appointed Michael Straight to head a new arts commission. But when Straight found his background was to be closely vetted by the FBI, he confessed that there was an attempt to recruit him into the Cambridge spy ring while he was a student there. Besides Philby, Burgess and Maclean, […]
[PDF file]: […] committees of the US Congress, named after their respective chairmen, Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike. These select committees investigated the illegal activities of the CIA, FBI, and NSA between 1975 and 1976. 7 Calvin Coolidge, ‘After all, the chief business of the American people is business…’ Reported in a speech to the […]
[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions This […]
[PDF file]: […] health issues’. Writing for Consortium News, Asa Winstanley has made the analogy that the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) should be seen as the equivalent of America’s Cointelpro/ FBI scandal of the 1970s.16 He’s certainly right that the UK media attention should be bigger than it is: it should, in fact, be bigger than the […]
[…] spy ring. As president, JFK appointed Michael Straight to head a new arts commission. But when Straight found his background was to be closely vetted by the FBI, he confessed that there was an attempt to recruit him into the Cambridge spy ring while he was a student there. Besides Philby, Burgess and Maclean, […]
[PDF file]: […] was a senior figure in the Polish intelligence service in the 1950s who leaked lots of material to the West.4 He thought he was leaking to the FBI, because he didn’t trust the CIA which he believed to have been penetrated by the Soviets. But it was the CIA which was receiving his documents […]
[PDF file]: […] hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme that throughout the 1960s and ‘70s terminated the careers (and lives) of many black American, civil rights and left activists in the US, Central […]
[…] officer carrying the rifle from the depository; photographs taken as the rifle was carried through the halls of Dallas Police Department; and photographs taken later by the FBI and Dallas Police Department. (79) The examination by committee photographic consultants determined that all photographs were of the same rifle. Both a study of proportions and […]
[…] 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]: […] It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first […]
