[…] that the Democratic Party never recovered from this convention. The only Democratic candidate who looked even to be in a position to take on the Mob, Robert Kennedy, was shot within minutes of winning the California primary in 1968. At the time, he looked likely to beat the emerging Republican candidate, one Richard Nixon. […]
[…] principle Lt. in Europe 1945 Controller Central Europe 1947 Rome, head of station; FO, ran journalist agents YOUNG, Rollo 1949 Malta and FO: Albanian operation YOUNG, George Kennedy CB(1960) CMG(1955) MBE(1945) B.8/4/11 1936 editorial staff, Glasgow Herald 1938 British United Press – pre war MI6 1939 commissioned Kings and Scottish Borderers 1941 despatches East […]
[…] even the story. (Subsequent research has suggested that Nagell fired the revolver in the bank because he wanted to get himself some mental treatment.) To a dilettante Kennedy assassination buff like me, much of this is interesting because the entire history of the attempts to investigate the event by journalists and buffs is interesting. […]
[…] Intelligence games … I was able to take a surreptitious photograph of anything of interest, I did so and passed it on.” (p106). In Washington, during the Kennedy years, he “knew much of what was going on.” (p117). During the same period, “The unedited versions were filed for Intelligence.” (p119) The Intelligence world, the […]
[…] no difference to Berlet whether the book is important or useful, or that Prouty’s latest book JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), offers unique perspectives based on his own experiences in the Pentagon. And never mind that no one else offered to […]
[…] George Mitchell, 90 St. John St., Glasgow Cl, £1.50 It’s Not Over… ‘Til it’s Over Rumors to the contrary, the twin conspiracies that murdered President John F. Kennedy and that covered up the facts of that murder are still the subjects of intensive research by a group of dedicated investigators writing for: The Third […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] While as recently as September 1972 the NF had provided stewards and 400 of the audience at a Monday Club anti-immigrant rally, after the defeat of George Kennedy Young’s challenge for the Chair of the Club in 1973, exclusion became the order of the day. (6) Ultimately the Monday Club opened their files to […]
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 – […]
[…] Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a poor substitute for angels and devils.” Like others of his ilk, Johnson seems […]
