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 […]
[…] with Meyer Lansky on Operation Underworld, the Mob’s first contact with the US intelligence community. Peter Dale Scott describes White in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK as ‘part of the “inner circle”‘, one of those who liaised between organised crime and the US bureaucracy in the post-war world. He also acted as […]
[…] in Moscow”: A Plan of the Yeltsin “Family” to Destabilize Russia The Hoover Institution, October 8, 2004, http://www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/res/papers/Dunlop%20paper.pdf. Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 6-15. See the anecdote in the latest edition of Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the […]
[…] ‘The last confession of E. Howard Hunt’, Rolling Stone, (1023), 5 April 2007, pp. 44-84. Also available at: Clifford Spiegelman et al, ‘Chemical and forensic analysis of JFK assassination bullet lots: is a second shooter possible?’ Due to be published in Annals of Applied Statistics. The draft article can be viewed at . See […]
[…] 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 […]
