[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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] hardly surprising. Doing anything but accepting the official 9/11 line would be bad for an academic career – in the same way that being interested in the JFK assassination would be. Being labelled a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is still a potential career-killer. As a preamble to discussing 9/11 as a false flag attack, Hughes discusses […]
[…] War on Secrecy.5 To my knowledge, neither Leigh nor Harding The unz.com website is anti-semitic and ran an essay arguing that it was the Israelis who shot JFK. I referred to this in my ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 88 (under subhead Dallas and Dimona). 3 or 4 This was discussed by Bill […]
[…] CIA attempts to destabilise New Zealand, through the exploration of the influence of the security and intelligence services on British politics; the role of conspiracy theories; CIA, JFK; the failure of Labour and the rise of NuLab; and out into some of the more arcane areas, notably UFOs and mind control. All the good […]
[PDF file]: […] Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events and Peter Dale Scott draws interesting parallels between them and the JFK assassination. Ray McGovern is a retired senior CIA analyst who prepared Presidential Daily Briefs on intelligence. He was recently arrested for protesting against the appointment 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] other academics in the field) that ‘conspiracy theory’ is an uncomplicated concept and anything so labelled can be assumed to be nonsense, is irrational and insulting (to JFK buffs in particular). However, with the spectacular crop of really dumb conspiracy theories which have emerged in recent years in the English-speaking world – QAnon etc. […]
[PDF file]: […] cargo hold. I found much of this boring and some difficult to follow: it needs studying, note-taking. This made me feel the way I did as a JFK assassination beginner encountering the more arcane end of the research, such as the autopsy evidence. I skipped bits of it (Kerr provides handy summaries at the […]
[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 […]
