[…] 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” […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ Students of parapolitics are divided as to the seriousness of the Cecil King coup plot of 1968 to establish what he called a ‘businessman’s government’, a permanent coalition government dominated by the right of the Labour Party but with unelected […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the idea of a German bomb – especially the powerful nationalist wing led by the influential Franz-Josef Strauss. All this was worrying to the USA where Kennedy had taken over the Presidency in 1961 determined to prevent the fragmentation of the western alliance into separate US and European politico-economic power blocs: ‘If the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
