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 […]
[…] the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about […]
[…] militarism (the military-industrial complex) united with nationalist proponents of unilateralism and economic protection, moved swiftly to undermine the plans and projections of the multilateralists.’ (p. 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter […]
[…] help the company’s cash-flow problems. The stock rapidly became worthless. In effect, he hadn’t repaid the loan. An additional bonus. 3 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Fall 1993), pp. ix, 413 4 The Savings and Loan Crisis was itself caused by deregulation. Small financial […]
[…] in the book, UFOs 1947-1987, ed. John Spencer and Hilary Evans, (London: Fortean Tomes (sic)) 1987. 2 Thomas republished Torbitt, with a commentary, as NASA, Nazis and JFK, reviewed in Lobster 32. The fact that Crisman is named in Torbitt suggests to me that Crisman might be the author of it. Who else would […]
[…] often seemed to be on the outside of or even excluded from the many briefings given by Truman administration insiders, and that it was not until the JFK era that he came into his own. He even suggested that there were some in Washington who suspected Brandon’s loyalty.(2) Another account recorded how Brandon always […]
[…] the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). Somewhere in the account of the latter by one of its investigators, Gaeton Fonzi, was the comment that while the JFK assassination experts thought the HSCA had set up an proper investigation, the man in charge of it, Robert Blakey, saw his job not as investigating the […]
