[…] came from him.) (3) Without the French, thought Butler, peace had to be made. Butler saw Lord Halifax – who agreed. An envoy was sent to Joseph Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador. An isolationist, Kennedy approved and saw Halifax. De Courcy is vague at this point but, presumably, talks began, avenues explored. Given the limited […]
[…] room to an account of the size and possible influence of the Rhodes Scholar network. (17) He writes of ‘the excessive number of Rhodes Scholars in the Kennedy Administration’ (18) and of the Rhodes Scholars forming ‘a recognizable elite in Canada.’ (19) Apparently unaware of Quigley, Flint notes that ‘in each of the white […]
[…] tell us in The Men on the Sixth Floor that an oil man they met in Houston told them that half of Texas knew that LBJ had Kennedy killed. Is this plausible? I have no way of knowing. We know so little about Texas politics and organised crime in the period. For example, it […]
[…] bi-chemist. Stark spoke of having studied biochemistry at various Ivy League universities and of having quit a top secret post at the Department of Defense during the Kennedy administration because the work ‘disgusted’ him. One scientist who knew Stark says he claimed to have been attached to the CIA ‘mind control’ project – later […]
[…] under the mountain of coke some of his flunkeys were running to raise funds for the Contras in the new privatised American imperialism. With Dukakis – from Kennedy family territory – the next President (unless something spectacular is staged, say an assassination that could be dumped on the left), much of the US state […]
[…] in the US? That is still possible; but now we know a little more about how all this works, why would they bother? Projects like Harkness and Kennedy Scholarships and all the others are essentially ‘soft’ recruitment schemes in which doors are opened for suitable people to walk through and see the career prospects […]
[…] the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, who in turn contacted his CIA supervisor, identified as George Bush…….Carone said the individual located by Ruth Paine was identified as a Mr Lee Harvey Oswald.’ In 1956, eh? Planning the Kennedy assassination before he was elected President? That’s what I call planning.
[…] during the time when the doctrine of containment was being developed and the post-war Anglo-American alliance constructed. Later subjects were front rank US politicians such as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and key officials such as Robert McNamara and Henry Kissinger. Brandon lived for many years next door to the UK Ambassador’s residence in Washington […]
[…] best of a poor lot was David Sexton’s in the Spectator (31 May 1987) which at least had the intelligence to see that the rival version by Kennedy and Knightley was pretty poor. A Putney Plot Peter Hain (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1987) In which Peter Hain reads Lobster 11, goes to see Colin Wallace […]
[…] FBI files of historical, social or journalistic interest, compiled by Michael J. Ravnitzky from FOIA requests. All files are publicly accessible, and are listed under name, eg Kennedy, and file numbers, which facilitates FOIA requests for the docs. The Irish War http://jya.com/irish-war.htm The chapter of Tony Geraghty’s book which describes the covert war and […]
