[PDF file]: […] issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that those criticising Warren’s conclusion should be described as ‘conspiracy theorists’. The author notes that this turned out to be ‘one of the most successful […]
[…] well as a lot of speculation. His analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed M ark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on […]
[…] the excellent Jim DiEugenio has one about the LBJ-dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. In a recent comment on Phillip F. Nelson’s LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination and LBJ – From Mastermind to “The Colossus” he wrote: The 2 key pieces of evidence Nelson uses to incriminate Johnson are wrong. As Groden […]
A review of Lobster in Alternative literature: a practical guide for librarians (1996)
[PDF file]: […] Steve Dorril’s Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, Robin Ramsay’s Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military’s medical experiments on service personnel. What both Lobsters excel at are finding the links between apparently unrelated events, or […]
[…] offered a Harvard fellowship; her second marriage was to the American political academic Richard Neustadt who had spent time discreetly monitoring Hugh Gaitskell’s Labour Party for the JFK White House; and even as an SDP politician briefly in the Commons and then in the Lords, she was regularly back among the liberal East Coast […]
[PDF file]: The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963) Garrick Alder Above: the masthead of The Cuban Report, as it appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by […]
[PDF file]: […] which he said clearly that there is no way to answer the question ‘Who started it?’ In a way this is just as irrelevant as ‘Who killed JFK?’ However, what makes Cumings’ book remarkable is that he not only does not reject out of hand the idea that tight coincidence within a penumbra of […]
[PDF file]: […] support of the traditional political establishment in both the UK and US has been badly rattled in the last year, the words of Edmund Burke, echoed by JFK, remain prescient: ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing’. Simon Matthews is the author of Psychedelic Celluloid: […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before […]
[PDF file]: […] were not discouraged by the Kennedys as they wanted LBJ off the ticket for the 1964 election. This simmering scandal threatened to end LBJ’s political career, but JFK was killed. When he was eventually prosecuted, Baker kept his mouth shut and LBJ just managed to keep the lid on things The Nixon regime which […]
