[…] Cuban exile Anselmo Alliergro IV, who dealt with Latin American sales. In 1974 Werbell was involved in a “conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco (international fugitive and Nixon campaign contributor) and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in South America. Vesco wanted to purchase Werbell’s stock of 2000 silenced M10 pistols. When Werbell […]
[…] Robert Kennedy, was shot within minutes of winning the California primary in 1968. At the time, he looked likely to beat the emerging Republican candidate, one Richard Nixon. The only other Democratic president, with the exception of Lyndon Johnson, between 1952 and 1976, John F Kennedy, had owed his win to the support of […]
[…] NY 1973) describing his activities and those of LAPD’S CCS. Among his more startling claims is one that CCS planned ‘left wing’ riots and the assassination of Nixon for the Republican Convention of 1972, apparently in the hope of installing Vice President Agnew as some kind of dictator. Although this story is quite widely […]
[…] in CIA Infiltration of the Labour Movement (Militant, 1982) p.343 Chester L. Cooper, The Lost Crusade: The Full Story of US Involvement in Vietnam from Roosevelt to Nixon (MacKibbon & Kee 1970) p.147 George Brown In My Way (Penguin 1972) p.343 Cooper op.cit. p.469 Archie Roosevelt, For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence […]
[…] his staff and friends. Wick, a longtime show-business friend of Reagan, was appointed only a year ago and has obviously learned little of the lessons of the Nixon era. The tapes have been handed over to a Congressional committee. In June 1980 Leigh wrote an article for the Liverpool Newsletter, a paper which adopts […]
[…] Franks and Marenches were serving heads of British and French intelligence respectively. On the political side, Pinay – a former French Prime Minister – forged links with Nixon, Kissinger and Pompidou. The Circle’s present members include Giulio Andreotti, former Italian Prime Minister; Portuguese putschist General Antonio de Spinola; former Franco minister and senior Opus […]
[…] had worked, souring French-American relations; pushing de Gaulle into an anti-NATO corner; splitting the French Government so well that the wounds wouldn’t heal until Pompidou met with Nixon in June 1970 to secure French-American relations. It is against this background that we should view the book Farewell America, a Gaullist disinformation attempt to redress […]
[…] lunch. Pinay had given Mr Crozier documents relating to their next project. M. Pinay had presented a copy of European Security and the Soviet Problem to President Nixon and Dr Kissinger in America. Earlier that week he had had a three hour session with President Pompidou, during which time he had presented him with […]
[…] was around $3 per barrel. By January 1974 the Benchmark price was just under $11.50pb. The background to this – at least in my view – was Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971.’ The actual section from the Bilderberg minutes says this: ‘An American speaker pointed out that one official […]
[…] public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of the United States […]
