[…] the London Observer.(9) His review runs to a little under 800 words. The first paragraph is a once-over of Nixon’s career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] might have survived without is ‘MI5, 1909-1945: an information management perspective’ by Black and Brunt in the Journal of Information Sciences, 26 (3) 2000. What next, the Kennedy assassination: a catering perspective? On the other hand, an article which could have used a lot of expansion was ‘The Labour Party spies……..Stella’s last State Secret’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] to read the available literature on the subject. Hennessy’s relationship to the Anglo-American states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is infinitely bigger than the killing of JFK. Kennedy was just a politician and killing politicians isn’t that unusual in American history. Another difference is the existence of the Internet and the vast amount of […]
