[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]
[PDF file]: […] impact. Her central thesis, that state conspiracies have produced conspiracy theories, is true; but how much more oomph it would have carried had she been able to look the „covert nature of American politics since the Cold War in the face. 2 Newman, she could not have so blithely dismissed the JFK researchers as ‘amateurs’.
[…] taken in Dallas on or 3 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it here because Robert Morrow6 has reminded his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the […]
[…] 1 Dallas again This is one of the famous ‘three tramps’ photographs taken in Dallas on 22 November 1963, a couple of hours after the shooting of JFK. I reproduce it 4 See . See, for example, or . 5 2 there is one other sentence worth noting. During a visit to the Vatican […]
[…] cautious views on JFK’s death of – say – Professor Peter Dale Scott or former CIA officer John Newman, she could not have so blithely dismissed the JFK researchers as ‘amateurs’. Iran-Contra is sketched in and she flunks the central issue of the CIA’s role in facilitating the wholesale importation of cocaine. She notes […]
[PDF file]: […] Keysers. Edward DuCann, Two Lives (Upton on Severn: Images Publishing, 1995) p. 131. 28 This began during JFK’s term in office. It is not widely understood that JFK was more or less a Rooseveltian Democrat who sought – rather like Harold Wilson – to rebuild the US manufacturing economy and rein in the US […]
[…] the pin, but only fiction writers have come close to sticking the pin into the donkey’s behind. This was the argument being presented by James Douglass in JFK and The Unspeakable, which I reviewed here in Lobster, an effort to try to narrow what might be called suspects in the macro conspiracy. Work like […]
[PDF file]: […] lumping together secret state research 7 See 8 See . John Naughton, one of the three directors of the project, tweeted: ‘The minute you get into the JFK stuff and the minute you sniff at the 9/11 stuff you begin to lose the will to live’. See . Yes, both subjects are full of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] at university. What he does not mention in that chapter is that between SDS and becoming a professional journalist he had been interested in the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK. On p. 207 he writes of ‘my first book, The Permanent Campaign, published in 1980’ – omitting his 1976 book on those assassinations, […]
