[…] pointing this out, which IT published. In the process of this bit of research I wandered into fields about which I then knew little: American history, the Kennedy assassination, nuclear strategic theory, the history of the cold war and what was then just beginning to be called parapolitics. And I was fascinated. I spent […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the […]
The assassinations of the 1960s A recently discovered sound recording of the assassination of Robert Kennedy shows that there was indeed a second shooter in the room. At least 13 shots were fired according to the analysis by Philip Van Praag, an expert in the ‘forensic analysis of magnetic media recordings’. Sirhan Sirhan’s gun […]
[…] Morgan. His service (see below) he informs me, is now computerised, and he ‘now covers both the January openings and the monthly New Lists.’ Steamshovel Press President Kennedy with the late Mary Meyer I lifted the picture from the front cover of Steamshovel Press Number Ten. It shows President Kennedy with the late Mary […]
[…] doctrine, that of Territorial Warfare (in a document translated into English by Pauker), which gave priority to counter-insurgency as the army’s role. Especially afier 1962, when the Kennedy Administration aided the Indonesian Army in developing Civic Mission or ‘civic action’ programs, this meant the organization of its own political infrastructure, or Territorial Organization, reaching […]
[…] D. Jablow Hershman New Jersey: Barricade, 2002, $27.95 Colin Challen MP I tend to the view, presented succinctly in Who Shot JFK?, (10) that whoever assassinated Kennedy did so with the objective of installing LBJ as President. The tantalising question that arises is: did LBJ know? This book does not answer that question, […]
Radio Enoch: the station you love to hate Radio Enoch (see Lobster 46) was one of a number of Free Radio stations operating illegally during the 1960s and 1970s. Unlike its more pop music oriented contemporaries, however, Radio Enoch’s output consisted solely of right wing political propaganda, albeit with a musical background. (1) Its origins […]
[…] The more recent volumes make use of declass’d records, Presidential tape recordings, and other documents. Currently 21 recent volumes are on-line, including those on the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Centre for the Study of Intelligence http://www.odci.gov/csi/ Conducts research on intelligence and publishes classsified and unclassified editions of the Studies in Intelligence journals. […]
[…] came from him.) (3) Without the French, thought Butler, peace had to be made. Butler saw Lord Halifax – who agreed. An envoy was sent to Joseph Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador. An isolationist, Kennedy approved and saw Halifax. De Courcy is vague at this point but, presumably, talks began, avenues explored. Given the limited […]
[…] there was no ‘Soviet threat’. The revisionist historians of the Cold War were right; and those within the American political system – the obvious examples being presidents Kennedy and Carter – who tried to slow/stop the nuclear arms race, were right. But Kennedy was killed (if not by the Pentagon, by one of the […]
