[…] from the way the evidence was given to me by past and serving soldiers that it could not have been engineered by the MOD.” Shades of Robert Kennedy! In 1963, immediately after his brother’s assassination, Robert Kennedy is said to have asked the then head of the CIA, John McCone, if the agency had […]
[…] latter ground alone is too often simply irrational, usually made for defensive reasons. (Just about the hardest thing most people can do is change their mind.) The Kennedy assassination and the UFO story are both examples of no-go areas for most respectable intellectuals. (When Scott Newton sent me the review essay on the Garrison […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] for Far Eastern Affairs, Roger Hilsman. In a letter to the New York Times, January 20, 1992, Hilsman concluded: ‘The historical record, in sum, is clear: President Kennedy was determined not to let Vietnam become an American war — that is, he was determined not to send U.S. combat troops (as opposed to advisers) […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] book reviewed below. 2 Rolling Stone, 1 May 2006, published a long, detailed account of the conventional theft story, ‘Was the 2004 Election Stolen?’ by Robert F. Kennedy Jr..(And yes, he is one of those Kennedys.) A recent detailed study of the hackability of the Diebold voting machine is Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex […]
