[…] establishing motives and the background of domestic paranoia about communism made the idea of a vast communist conspiracy irresistibly seductive to many of its advocates in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In these examples government sources provided the basis for the fantasy. The inherent plausibility of the claims and the discoverable facts on the […]
[…] agency. This suggests that ‘revelations’ like the tunnel-as-source-of-Soviet-misinformation are CIA-approved. It is in this light, then, that we might also regard McCarry’s ‘solution’ to the assassination of Kennedy – the subject matter of Tears of Autumn – namely, that Kennedy was killed by members of Diem’s family in revenge for his (Diem’s) own assassination […]
[…] the ‘official documentary historical record of major US foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity’. Currently 28 recent volumes are online, including those on the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations: (www.state.gov/www/about_state/ history/frusonline.html) Covert Action in Thailand Foreign Relations of the US, 1964-68, vol XXVII, Mainland Southeast Asia; Regional Affairs. (Sept 2000) http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxvii/index.html This […]
[…] Paso, Texas, in September 1963 and fired two shots into the wall. Arrested and jailed, Nagell sent telegrams to J. Edgar Hoover and others, warning that President Kennedy was shortly to be killed by a New Orleans-based conspiracy of which Oswald was a part. Nagell, a former U.S. Army Intelligence agent, claimed that both […]
[…] that the Cold War is over. Under the heading ‘Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless conspiracy theorists, who speculate that Oswald, who had visited Moscow, was a K.G.B. “asset” […]
[…] theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was born in 1924 in Canada and returned […]
[…] COURSES 43- RESPONSIBLE FOR REFUGEES BURMA 48- RETIRED ARMY: ATTACHED TO FO AS INTERPRETER TIBETAN TRADE DELEGATION 51- ATTACHED TO COLONIAL OFFICE FOR ANTI-TERRORIST WORK IN MALAYA KENNEDY, –? MI5 (PRO FO 371/606007, NOT DATED) -50’s LETTER FROM FO MUTUAL AID DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT: ‘KENNEDY AT MI5 MAY BE OF SOME HELP IN CHECKING BRITISH […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
