[…] – 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 […]
[…] by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions to the death of Kennedy – essentially relief that a ‘Marxist’ had been got for the dirty deed. For their journals show that they initially expected to get the blame for […]
[…] 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.
[…] 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.
[…] the ‘cui bono?’ question (a) without establishing that there was a crime, and (b) without noticing that, even if there were, as with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
