[…] 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 […]
[…] the ‘cui bono?’ question (a) without establishing that there was a crime, and (b) without noticing that, even if there were, as with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, […]
[…] to read the available literature on the subject. Hennessy’s relationship to the Anglo-American states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
