[…] like Scott I chose not to attempt a detailed poke through the man’s writing. That would have been fun for me, interesting for a couple of dozen JFK buffs, but probably unintelligible to most people. Inevitably we got onto the JFK assassination, but not, I hope, before some other, equally interesting, material. Peter Dale […]
Richard M Bennett London: Virgin Books, 2003 £20 hardback This is 350 pages of summaries of political and historical conspiracies. It starts in 2330 BC but the first 2007 years take up only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: […]
[…] historical and modern espionage, assassination and conspiracies’ and I have the first issue, from 1991. This contains a number of potentially interesting articles — ‘FDR’s spies’, ‘ JFK and the French Connection’, ‘Top Hat and Fedora’ — for example, which are not treated in enough detail. Maybe things have changed since this issue. A […]
BAP The Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines a bap as a ‘large soft bread roll’. How soft or hard the British American Project for the Successor Generation is — only time will tell. But it is certainly proving rather indigestible to the British media. By any standards a major story, Tom Easton’s piece on BAP (in […]
[…] 1960s, by Dennis Small, originally published in New Zealand’s Peace Researcher, is now on-line.(23) Notes See . Douglass has a book out soon in the US on JFK which, to judge by a pre-publication review by Jim Di Eugenio, at is going to be very good indeed. Video here of Siegelman talking about this […]
Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b, £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton’s allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war […]
[…] will now be able to do so without Roddy Scott’s brave and objective scrutiny. Corinne Souza Harry Irwin Harry Irwin died in early October. Harry published the JFK Assassination Forum Newsletter for a time in the 1970s and was a considerable help to me when I was a tyro JFK buff, supplying books and […]
23. Book Review. The Round Table The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden Carroll Quigley (Books in Focus, New York 1981) This, I think, is the most important book ever written about the British ruling class and its foreign policy. In outline Quigley has rewritten the political and diplomatic history of Britain (and thus some […]
U.S. President Bill Clinton has made a number of public references to the impresssion made on him as a young student by Professor Carroll Quigley. (1) As Lobster readers will know, Quigley was the author of Tragedy and Hope (U.S., MacMillan, 1966) in which he described for the first time the role of the Round […]
[…] Tracker, published in Patterson, New Jersey, was up to issue 21 when I approached it, and its list of back issues featured these gems: ‘Did Masons kill JFK, Pope John Paul 1, Princess Grace?’ (no. 4) and ‘Discover how UFO beliefs are being manipulated to create social change — and how this ties into […]
