[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] speeds around the US in the 1940s and 50s with a crew of eight women. Later on we bump into speculation on the pro-Nazi sympathies of the Kennedy family (mildly interesting), L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Skorzeny, and David Icke’s view of Bill Clinton, George Bush and the Skull and Bones Society. The illustration are […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] and the racist right. As with the ARS, the influx of the racist right into Monday Club led to a faction fight. In 1973, fronted by George Kennedy Young, the enthusiasts of “the bridge” attempted — but narrowly failed — to take-over the Club. I presume that essentially the same people were involved in […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] administration talks on big environmental issues: LESLEY ABDELA – Liberal candidate East Herts 1979, founder of the 300 Group (to increase the number of women MPs) 1980; Kennedy School of Government Harvard 1992; Electoral Reform Society 1995; British Council 1995; Deputy Director of Democracy UN Interim Administration Kosovo 1997. MAURICE ASH (see above). GRAHAM […]
[PDF file]: […] appeared in Summer 1963. June 1963 was a pivotal month in the history of covert US action against Fidel Castro’s Cuba. On June 19th, US President John Kennedy signed the executive version of a blank cheque, by approving covert CIA funding for what were referred to opaquely as ‘autonomous groups’. The groups in question […]
[PDF file]: […] protect: its involvement with notorious gangsters in plots to assassinate a foreign head of state, Fidel Castro, and its possible indirect involvement in the murder of President Kennedy. This article frames Nixon’s invocation of ‘the Bay of Pigs thing’ in the context of a multi-year cover-up by powerful forces in the U.S. ‘deep state’ […]
[PDF file]: […] historian’s reflections on changing patterns of exposure of sexual transgressions in American politics, see John H. Summers, ‘What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy,’ Journal of American History, vol. 87, no. 3 (December 2000), pp. 825-854. 7 West, Secrets, Sex, and Spectacle, p. 6. Apostolidis and Williams define it as […]
