[…] and Mohammed Salameh, waiting at Nosair’s house. They found much more: There were formulas for bomb making, 1,440 rounds of ammunition, and manuals from the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg marked “Top Secret for Training,” along with classified documents belonging to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The police found […]
[…] p. 303 Baker p. 308 Baker p. 348 Baker p. 311 Baker p. 345 Baker p. 348 The Guardian, 1 December 2007 ‘Blacklist?’, hosted by Professor Ian Kennedy, with guests Harold Musgrove, Hilary Wainwright, Hugo Cornwall, Richard Norton-Taylor, George Brumwell, John Macreadie, Michael Noar. Channel 4, 10 September 1988. Baker p. 178 Retired and […]
[…] the SAS inspire in their admirers. For other SAS accounts of the Dhofar War see Tony Jeapes, SAS: Operation Oman, (William Kimber, London, 1980) and Michael Paul Kennedy, Soldier’I’ SAS, (Bloomsbury, London, 1990) He later died of hypothermia while on a long distance march across the Brecon Beacons in February 1979. For a good […]
[…] 2001 repeated the misinformation that Walker had founded Unison in 1974 before renaming it as Civil Assistance. In fact Unison was the creation of the late George Kennedy Young and Civil Assistance began as the civil assistance wing of Unison. Walker left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Meanwhile, around 1975, an honest CIA officer discovered financial documents which named Dr Gottlieb as having been involved in the MKULTRA Program, and in 1977 Senator Edward Kennedy held Congressional hearings into the matter. While watching the proceedings on television, Stan Glickman found reason to believe that Dr Gottlieb was the American who had […]
[…] of Mena? Another current source of conspiracy theories is the Clinton-Whitewater-Mena-drugs-cocaine-CIA-contra story. Are there Clinton buffs out there now following the Clinton scandals the way there are Kennedy buffs? Maybe one would get in touch and explain to me how much of it is true. Mena, Contras, drugs in and guns out, Barry Seal, […]
[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 […]
