[PDF file]: […] supporter of Italy’s Christian Democrats. See FBI memo from Special Agent in Charge, New York, to Director, FBI, May 15, 1963, record identifier 124-10215-10313, Records of the JFK Assassination, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Brod’s later work investigating ‘Italian politicians and fascists, political parties, Nazi fugitives, CP activities and Soviet and Chinese […]
[…] 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]: […] just an encumbrance. It’s the American model, of course; it’s what Tony Blair yearned for. Very striking. Tugwell and InfPol W ay back when…..there was a Canadian JFK researcher called Scott Van Wynsberghe who wrote a couple of pieces for Lobster. In number 27 I noted that Van Wynesberghe had graduated from writing for […]
[PDF file]: […] sometimes in ways that undermine those activities, and very often ways that interfere with and muddle them. The U-2 incident Prouty came to the attention of the JFK assassination researchers because he was the most senior ex-intelligence/military figure to write about the Dallas events as an obvious conspiracy and cover-up. The book also drew […]
[PDF file]: The writer with no hands Matthew Alford www.amazon.co.uk/Writer-No-Hands-MatthewAlford/dp/1530122651 Alford completed a PhD, which became the book Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy (London: Pluto, 2010). His central thesis of that is that large budget, mainstream American movies, ‘….almost always express the notion that in its foreign policy, the endless wars in which it engages, […]
[…] 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]: […] Texas Democrats, has not been documented. He does link Jack Ruby to the Dallas Civello gang, but there is nothing in this book linking the shooting of JFK to Civello/Marcello/Mondolini. North would have us conclude that this inference is inescapable. But it isn’t. Pursuing this thesis North has to ignore much of the extant […]
[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many […]
[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]
[PDF file]: […] his eligibility. Birtherism was not just used against Obama! The ultimate strike against Cruz, however, was the National Enquirer front page headline ‘TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION’. Once again, Trump claimed to have nothing to do with this story being run, but once it was out there took relentless advantage of it. […]
