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Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA
[…] first two chapters.3 Nixon believed that papers about those events leading up the 1968 election were held in the Brookings Institute in Washington, a bastion of (relatively) liberal thinking on foreign affairs. Nixon wanted Brookings burgled and the papers stolen. Nixon set the tone for ‘the plumbers’, the off-the-books Author interview at or . […]
Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88
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[…] History and the Last Man’. In that – which I haven’t read – he argued that, with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the last challenge to liberal democracy was over. Uh-huh. I recently saw reference to another, more recent essay by Professor Fukuyama, with the intriguing title ‘In Defense of the deep state’. […]
The view from the bridge
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[…] intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been one of those preparing to meet the Communist ‘threat’ […]
Historical Notes
Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain
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[…] History and the Last Man’. In that – which I haven’t read – he argued that, with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the last challenge to liberal democracy was over. Uh-huh. I recently saw reference to another, more recent essay by Professor Fukuyama, with the intriguing title ‘In Defense of the deep state’. […]
Still thinking about Dallas
[PDF file]: […] that the by then divorced Mary Meyer became one of JFK’s sexual partners in the 1960s, may have increased Meyer’s animus.24 Despite having ended WW2 as a liberal internationalist, Meyer became an obsessive, even paranoid anti-communist and may have persuaded himself that JFK was a threat to the Republic.25 In his hand-written sketch of […]