[…] penetration of the White House: McCord’s CIA section had its own men amongst the White House Secret Service personnel – ponder the implications of that for the Kennedy assassination if there was similar penetration in 1963 – while Hunt appears to have been engaged in building character profiles of the White House staff for […]
[…] for information’, which he subsequently shared with Bing Spear. Abrams adds for good measure, ‘Stark had told me …..that he was seconded to the White House under Kennedy so he may have been there at the time of the Kennedy assassination.’ (Damn, not that again). Perhaps the weirdest single episode in Abrams’ story – […]
[…] the events the hypothesis seeks to explain in a wider historical context. Remarkably, for example, Andrew suggested that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that […]
[…] 2001. In its final online release of material related to the conference, the National Security Archive has also posted audio recordings of two telephone conversations between President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on March 2, 1963, in which they discuss concerns that a Senate investigating committee might reveal that the President […]
[…] savvy folk knew Gerry had a wayward way with facts from his book’s first sentence, which claims that more than 2,000 books have been written about the Kennedy assassination. The actual figure is somewhere under 400. Posner probably got the 2,000 figure from the struggling Assassination Research Center in Washington, DC, which does (or […]
[…] of a feather flock together. I don’t know any squares that run with them. They may go down to look. The who shot John? Suddenly we’ve got Kennedy assassins all over the place. In August, the former Dallas policeman Roscoe White was identified as the shooter on the grassy knoll by his son, after […]
[…] now known of the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro plots.Incidentally, as another example of how unwise it can be to automatically dismiss someone as paranoid, one 1964 account of the Kennedy assassination (Red Roses from Texas by Nerin E. Gunn) quotes, as an example of vicious anti-JFK propaganda, a rightist broadsheet headlined ‘Kennedy Keeps Mistresses’. I am […]
[…] in the world rather than considerably further down the list, as would be the case if it relied on its own natural resources. In December 1962 President Kennedy referred to Israel as having a ‘special relationship’ with the US of the same type that the US had with Britain. In the early stages of […]
[…] 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 […]
I was a student here (1) from 1971-74 doing a social science degree; but more importantly, between 1976 and 1982 I was on the dole much of the time and spent most of my days in the library here, educating myself in post-war history, American history, what was available then about the intelligence services – […]
