[…] doesn’t take the story back to the 1960s but the Walton book, Brothers, reviewed above, shows that the struggle between the Pentagon and civil America dominated the Kennedy Presidency; and it now looks entirely plausible to view post-war American history as centred around the problem created by the successful ending of the American depression […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and health. Site broken up into 1995 and 1996, and gives monthly list of items published. 1996 includes Oklahoma City bombings, Waco, Ron Brown, Nazi gold, Marilyn, Kennedy and the Mob, the buying of the President, bovine growth hormone, Gulf War syndrome and aspartame (widely used artificial sweetener thought to be associated with migraines […]
