[…] Cabinet colleague, Chris Smith. The MP for Islington South is no stranger to the United States. Between his first degree at Cambridge and his doctorate there, a Kennedy scholarship took him to Harvard for a year. A few years in local government earned him the chance of a seat and shortly after being elected […]
[…] infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian Alliance, who were not only anti-fascist but anti-state. Searchlight didn’t bother […]
[…] execrable ‘novel’ The Spike – until IPS lawyers forced changes in the text. In 1984 Crozier wrote to the Spectator attacking IPS director Richard Barnet (a former Kennedy aide) and accusing the IPS of being ‘a front for Cuban intelligence, itself controlled by the KGB’. Barnet sued, the litigation reaching a climax in 1986 […]
[…] anti-communist special forces. In 1962 he returned to Vietnam as the CIA’s chief of field operations. He also served as a ‘floating emissary’, reporting directly to the Kennedy White House while secretly coaching the cabal of generals who murdered President Diem and his opium-addicted brother Nhu on 2 November 1963. After the bloody coup […]
[…] – 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 […]
[…] fascism, communism and the left for New Statesman, Socialist, Casablanca, and Private Eye. Anthony Frewin works in the British film industry. His The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography 1963-92 has just been published by the Greenwood Press in the USA. Peter Smith teaches politics at the University of […]
[…] 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.
[…] Blair’s foreign policy advisor, is a former foreign office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.(51) Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).(52) Patrician Hewitt works for the US company Anderson Consulting. Tessa Blackstone, now an education minister, […]
[…] on this side of the Channel. How could they know?……. “They found Cook County”, was the jaundiced comment of one observer, recalling the infamous result that gave Kennedy his victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.’ Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from […]
[…] to do what? Notes This won’t exactly reduce the suspicions that Scaife was merely a front man for Agency money. I wonder if this group included George Kennedy Young, who was certainly working with McWhirter at this point in Unison on the same lines. Young isn’t mentioned here. This largely confirms the version of […]
