[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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.
[…] best of a poor lot was David Sexton’s in the Spectator (31 May 1987) which at least had the intelligence to see that the rival version by Kennedy and Knightley was pretty poor. A Putney Plot Peter Hain (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 1987) In which Peter Hain reads Lobster 11, goes to see Colin Wallace […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Young, Unison etc As I write, issue 2 of Open Eye has yet to appear. When it does it will contain an extremely interesting memoir of George Kennedy Young by Peter Cadogan. A stalwart of the British radical Left for about 40 years, Cadogan makes a curious companion for Young, as Cadogan acknowledges. But […]
[…] 25 year non-aggression pact during the late summer of 1939. So it might all be a surprise for Roberts – but it’s old news, really. Notes Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (London, 1988), p.429. Interview with Paul Sweezy by Christopher Phelps and Andros Skotnos, Monthly Review vol. 51, 1 […]
[…] the Foreign Policy Centre had no previous connection. Twigg will be a welcome ally on Merseyside of old LFI friends and war backers Louise Ellman and Jane Kennedy. A band of brothers The tightness of the New Labour media and political circle was exemplified in the days following the November publication of the Independent […]
[…] some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t know about this — or about anything. In short, the notion that Chomsky says […]
