[…] infiltration of the Tories was coming not from some continuation of the 1970s ‘bridge’ between the Tory right and the fascist/authoritarian right, symbolised by the late George Kennedy Young, but from the other direction entirely, the libertarians, mainly those associated with the Libertarian Alliance, who were not only anti-fascist but anti-state. Searchlight didn’t bother […]
[…] 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.
[…] is reproduced in Emory’s new magazine Other Means. Like the book, Loftus’ interview is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. For example: ‘After Nixon’s narrow loss to Kennedy and the narrow loss of Dewey to Truman, Nixon was determined to mobilize his own political bloc. He was convinced that the American Jews had dollars, […]
[…] that the book contains very useful sections which genuinely add to our knowledge of what happened in 1940-41. Costello is convincing on the pro-Nazi machinations of Joseph Kennedy, the US Ambassador in London. He provides the fullest English language account yet of the attempt made by Butler and Halifax in June to set up […]
[…] Garrison which kept the thing alive after 1967; it has been the CIA revelations in the context of an unpopular war in Vietnam, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Dr King, and the work of other, more substantial, JFK researchers. CIA admits overestimating Soviet weapons Newly declassified documents in the US show that the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Originally commissioned by Reader’s Digest, it was cancelled when new editorial staff took over. Don’t be put off by the Readers’ Digest tag. It should be […]
[…] structure and operational capabilities of the national security agencies wither away until the prospects have all but faded from view…’ JFK sources Two significant articles on the Kennedy assassination appeared in Probe. ‘Harvey and Lee: the case for two Oswalds’ by John Armstrong is split into two parts in Probe September-October and November-December 1997. […]
[…] (q.v). Anti-Soviet advocate of a policy of “imperial isolationism’ for British Commonwealth and Empire; attempted to negotiate Anglo-German peace through United States Ambassador to Great Britain Joseph Kennedy in May-June 1940, with the approval of Halifax (q. v.) and Butler. Warned off by Prime Minister Churchill. (De Courcy; Lobster 16; Costello) Domville, Admiral Sir […]
[…] McKnight cites an FBI document that the president ‘approved the idea that make a report showing the evidence conclusively tying Oswald in as the assailant of President Kennedy.’ This was the ‘official solution’ and Earl Warren and company simply fell in behind it. Now, we may have guessed that this is what happened but […]
