[…] – and served as their media guru and “senior adviser” as they set out to engineer an uprising against Saddam. It was as if President John F. Kennedy had outsourced the Bay of Pigs operation to the advertising and public-relations firm of J. Walter Thompson.’ In the UK, Blair’s PR man, Alistair Campbell, got […]
[…] Garrison which kept the thing alive after 1967; it has been the CIA revelations in the context of an unpopular war in Vietnam, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr King, and the work of other, more substantial, JFK researchers. CIA admits overestimating Soviet weapons Newly declassified documents in the US show that the […]
[…] into films and this might account for the breathless airport thriller style. It is a superficial history without footnotes. We get the odd March of Time sequence to let us know that Kennedy has been elected or someone’s invented the hula-hoop, but otherwise the wider driving forces in American foreign and domestic policy are ignored.
[…] propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Originally commissioned by Reader’s Digest, it was cancelled when new editorial staff took over. Don’t be put off by the Readers’ Digest tag. It should be […]
[…] speeds around the US in the 1940s and 50s with a crew of eight women. Later on we bump into speculation on the pro-Nazi sympathies of the Kennedy family (mildly interesting), L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Skorzeny, and David Icke’s view of Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Skull and Bones Society. The illustration are […]
[…] (q.v). Anti-Soviet advocate of a policy of “imperial isolationism’ for British Commonwealth and Empire; attempted to negotiate Anglo-German peace through United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy in May-June 1940, with the approval of Halifax (q. v.) and Butler. Warned off by Prime Minister Churchill. (De Courcy; Lobster 16; Costello) Domville, Admiral Sir […]
[…] and the racist right. As with the ARS, the influx of the racist right into Monday Club led to a faction fight. In 1973, fronted by George Kennedy Young, the enthusiasts of “the bridge” attempted — but narrowly failed — to take-over the Club. I presume that essentially the same people were involved in […]
[…] befriended Marina Oswald in Dallas. Yes, it’s another matrix! At this stage you either go, ‘Wow!’, and begin speculating about a hitherto undetected occult dimension to the Kennedy assassination, as the author does, or ‘So what?’ as I did. The author’s approach can be summed-up by his trip to Charles Manson’s home town of […]
[…] administration talks on big environmental issues: LESLEY ABDELA – Liberal candidate East Herts 1979, founder of the 300 Group (to increase the number of women MPs) 1980; Kennedy School of Government Harvard 1992; Electoral Reform Society 1995; British Council 1995; Deputy Director of Democracy UN Interim Administration Kosovo 1997. MAURICE ASH (see above). GRAHAM […]
[…] McKnight cites an FBI document that the president ‘approved the idea that make a report showing the evidence conclusively tying Oswald in as the assailant of President Kennedy.’ This was the ‘official solution’ and Earl Warren and company simply fell in behind it. Now, we may have guessed that this is what happened but […]
