[…] It made little mention of INLA. Mrs Thatcher was apparently appalled by the disparity of reports she received on intelligence in Northern Ireland. (British Intelligence in Action, Kennedy Lindsay) “British intelligence officers met their contacts and talked … all were to report later that night to their controller that nothing was known.” (Harry’s Game) […]
[…] Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt in 1978, but was never prosecuted…….Flynt survived his shooting but was paralyzed.’ So Flynt wasn’t shot because of his interest in the Kennedy assassination! Life truly is a disappointment sometimes. Insider view Jeffrey Bale (see Lobsters 18, 19, 21, 29) sent me the following from Leo D. Carl’s CIA […]
[…] the multilateralists.’ (p. 67) (11) JFK was trying the same thing as Jimmy Carter: reduce arms expenditure and have a less ruinous competition with the Soviet bloc. Kennedy got killed; and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] on station in the Red Sea. The source remains unable to identify from which of two carriers the aircraft launched (both the USS Saratoga and the USS Kennedy were on station in the Red Sea during this time-frame: 24/25 February 1991). Nor is the source able to provide exact date of this mission. The […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] it comes to stumblefootedness and unthinking fealty to the neo-liberal line. Does it seem strange that I refer to neo-liberalism in the context of the King and Kennedy assassinations? I hope not. Assassination – normally of indigenous people in far-off places like Chiapas – is a powerful tool for keeping people toeing a certain […]
[…] recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was ‘trained in Russia and with a Russian wife’! […]
[…] confined location and under medical supervision.) Austin LaRocque and Charles Dyer, both former students at the Fernald State School, told a panel headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative Edward Merkey that at that time they could not read or write and the researchers failed to obtain the full consent of them or […]
