[…] with British politics as with certain of its discrete institutions’. Presumably SIS. See Korbonski p. 20. Later American participants included Robert MacNamara, US Secretary of Defence under Kennedy and Johnson (earlier chair of the Ford Motor Company, and later President of the World Bank); and McGeorge Bundy, who worked on the Marshall Plan, was […]
[…] 25 year non-aggression pact during the late summer of 1939. So it might all be a surprise for Roberts – but it’s old news, really. Notes Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (London, 1988), p.429. Interview with Paul Sweezy by Christopher Phelps and Andros Skotnos, Monthly Review vol. 51, 1 […]
[…] Young, Unison etc As I write, issue 2 of Open Eye has yet to appear. When it does it will contain an extremely interesting memoir of George Kennedy Young by Peter Cadogan. A stalwart of the British radical Left for about 40 years, Cadogan makes a curious companion for Young, as Cadogan acknowledges. But […]
[…] from most branches of Beatties. This raises the prospect of a kind of ‘virtual history’ emerging, celebrated, retrospectively, by plastic kits. What next……a scale model of the Kennedy assassination (with a lone gunman)? The pioneering work in this field was Green’s War Planes of the Second World War, Vols 1-6 (MacDonald and Co, 1960/62) […]
[…] police vice squads may turn out to be true but he doesn’t have the evidence. The temptation to make dramatic statements shows elsewhere. On p.262, of the Kennedy assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting […]
[…] some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t know about this — or about anything. In short, the notion that Chomsky says […]
[…] for a batch of documents from the Public Record Office recording the minor flap the British Foreign Office got into over the 1967 Jackdaw kit of the Kennedy assassination – model of Dealey Plaza, documents etc. Some of the Great and the Good at the Foreign Office of the day, including Sir Dennis Greenhill […]
[…] whereby we hate in others what we fear in ourselves. In a key moment of Stone’s Nixon, Anthony Hopkins, as Nixon, talks to a portrait of John Kennedy. ‘When they look at you, they see what they want to be; when they look at me they see what they are.’ The essence of Nixon’s […]
[…] misuse of party funds Funds from East Germany to finance Wilson’s campaign McGrath/Paisley/McKeague Are Labour deliberately damaging the economy to assist USSR plot against West? Psychoanalysis: Wilson, Benn, O’Connell, Paisley Treasury study shows economy on verge of collapse Jo Richardson, Joan Maynard USA connection Biaggi, Kennedy, Ribicoff, McCarthy etc Colin Wallace’s Clockwork Orange notebook jottings
[…] reasonably presume that Denmark was not the only state to do this…. Is Google in bed with the spooks? John Simkin runs a large Website on the Kennedy assassination In October he sent me an e-mail, of which this is an extract. During my research on the JFK assassination I received information that an […]
