Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]
[…] Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 478pps, $29.95. The commonly accepted view is that the Warren Commission was a prisoner of its sources (i.e. the FBI) and that, coupled with a notable lack of general curiosity (‘We’re supposed to closing doors around here, not opening them,’ quoth Wesley J. Liebler), resulted in […]
[…] Oswald know about this? Was he indeed one of the conspirators, but a loose cannon who could be conveniently pushed overboard? Or was he in fact an FBI penetration agent? This suggestion should not be ignored. Threats to Kennedy’s life had been uttered by all kinds of strange groups and it would have been […]
[…] of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find himself part of history. DELOACH, Cartha D. Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995. 440 pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Hoover’s right-hand man offers up his apologia for Hoover […]
[…] interrogated for four hours, going through three different agencies. Finally she was released on bail. At her apartment the next day plain-clothed policemen interviewed her and at FBI headquarters she was shown pictures of many girls and asked if she knew them. It was clear that the FBI wanted Towers. Several charges were to […]
[…] own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no doubt not quite what he had intended. His death generated a modicum of local […]
[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017 John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and […]
Bilderberg Originally given as a paper at the British Association for American Studies 2002 Annual Postgraduate Conference, this draws on newly available archival evidence to document the origins of the Bilderberg Group. It also considers the various conspiracy theories which have attached themselves to the Group. Is it a CIA plot to undermine socialism or […]
[…] 40 years, James Jesus Angleton was the most glamorous: the chain-smoking, the orchid-growing, the poetry-writing – here was the antithesis of the dull, one-dimensional plodders in the FBI (or, for that matter, most of the CIA’s ‘company men’). Or so reading books and watching movies about spies has told us. There have already been […]
[…] Directorships (directors identified): Interests represented by directors: Methods: Objects: National Alliance of Employers and Employed 1916 63 (13) predominantly engineering, banking and railways; many prominent members of FBI propaganda, literature, social meetings, ‘economic education’ class peace and constructive reform Industrial League and Council 1919 78 (22) manufacturing, metallurgy, chemicals, brewing propaganda, formation of works […]
