[…] two discoveries of significance here. The first is a reference to ‘Mr Scott, the Editor of Security Gazette’. What is the ‘Security Gazette’, with whom the 1964 FBI in London was ‘maintain good relations’? The second concerns the late John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College at Oxford for many years, on whom there […]
[…] In the first place, not a line of this – maybe a hundred pages in all through the three parapolitical essays; 36 pages on the Cointelpro, the FBI and the American Indian, for example – appears to be attributed. In the digestion process, bits have got scrambled. On page 67, for example (the first […]
[…] the CPGB. The same thing was happening in the United States. The man who collected the dollars from the Soviets for the American Communist Party was an FBI agent. Like MI5, the FBI let the funding continue. In effect MI5 and the FBI ran the American and British communist parties as honeytraps for their […]
Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War Larry O’Hara Phoenix Press, London, 1994, £6 (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, […]
[…] one of the dirty secrets which had to be kept out of the 9-11 inquiry. This material is one of the reasons that the testimony of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who listened to FBI wiretaps of the Khan network using Turkish intermediaries and American lobbyists and politicians in the network’s continuing pursuit of […]
[…] committee was the first – and last – of its kind. Given a sweeping mandate to investigate interstate organised crime, something which Hoover, then head of the FBI, denied existed, it looked for a time in the early fifties as if it might not only break the power of the Mob but also propel […]
[…] “core group” during the 1980 hostage crisis. Herbert Cohen of the Hoover Institution, a member of the Carter Administration’s Hostage Task Force and a consultant to the FBI and Justice Departments on the hostage negotiations in 1980, met with Reagan Campaign Manager William Casey in the New York City Plaza Hotel in September 1980 […]
[…] to me. Flatland Two interesting pieces on Jim Martin’s Flatland Website, http://www.flatland books.com/ His ‘America’s Al-Qaeda: The SLA-Venceremos Connection’ and another take on the Judy Bari/Earth First/ FBI bombing story. Her ex-husband did it, says Martin, not the FBI. Red Star Research By far the best source on New Labour, personnel, sources of funding […]
First off, a slight digression. There’s been much talk recently about just how many books have been published on the assassination. ‘Over 2000’ is the figure that has been thrown around and this may be traced to the very opening sentence of Gerald Posner’s egregious Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK […]
[…] Diem by a personal friend of Kennedy’s, Torbert MacDonald. “MacDonald himself explained why Kennedy sent him. The President had begun to develop personal sources of information from FBI men who were bypassing J. Edgar Hoover and going directly to him. Some CIA people were following a similar route and avoiding the agency …. when […]
