[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] ignorant of the things that have been done in Northern Ireland by the British state. As far as I am aware only Roger Faligot (see above) and Kennedy Lindsay have produced substantial accounts of some of the counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, and these fragments from Wallace and Holroyd serve to show that even […]
[…] how to order it see the display ad in this issue. The Third Decade is a new journal devoted to the research into the assassination of President Kennedy. It is said occasionally that the JFK assassination research industry has long since turned into a fully-fledged academic subject with its own specialisms and sub-sets. This […]
[…] British state? Oswald and ‘Oswald’ Michael Beschloss’s Taking Charge: the Johnson White House Tapes 1963-4 (Simon and Schuster, 1997) is an interesting read for many reasons, but Kennedy buffs will turn to the immediate post 22 November ’63 sections looking for insights. There is only one significant revelation that I can see. At 10 […]
[…] ‘Hilda Murrell?’ ‘Don’t want to go there!’ After a couple of minutes of this there weren’t many places where you would want to go; I think the Kennedy assassinations and the Wilson plots were still fair game, but that was more or less it. Anything which had been written about by anyone irrational or […]
[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 […]
