[…] others, the as ‘an asset of SIS’. (I seem to remember that while a correspondent in Washington in the 1970s he had his phone tapped by the Nixon White House.) Tomlinson 1 The Richard Tomlinson affair has provided a number of insights. SIS officer Tomlinson was sacked – or, on some accounts, not retained […]
[…] skull-duggery and extreme right-wing politics were either Dallas residents (the Hunt brothers, the Murchisons, Charles P. Cabell) or recent visitors to the city (J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, Madame Nhu). It doesn’t take much brains to posit a Texas-based hit a la Farewell America, authored by the pseudonymous ‘James Hepburn’ and reputed to be […]
[…] country. Within a year of Castro’s ascension, by January of 1960, mercenary pilots and anti-Castroites were flying bombing missions against the regime. Meanwhile, in Washington, Vice-President Richard Nixon was lobbying on behalf of the military invasion that the CIA was plotting. It was against this background, in February of 1960, that Jim Jones suddenly […]
[…] This is a survey of Republican politics since Watergate, a set of essays on the big (para)political events of the last 30 years which show that since Nixon () the Republican Party has been the political front for a series of massive criminal conspiracies. We might say that the Republican Party is an ongoing […]
[…] 20, 1975), pp200-06. Henceforth cited as Assassination Report McCoy. pp 54-55 U.S. Congress. Senate, Watergate Hearings, Vol. 21 p9750 J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, Viking, 1976): p14: Watergate Hearings, Vol.1 pp249-50 Assassination Report, p131; Peter Dale Scott, Crime and Cover-Up (Berkeley, Westworks, 1977): p22 McCoy p 55 […]
For almost two generations, researchers in the UFO field have suspected that there is a cover-up by US government agencies which prevents any meaningful progress in discovering the facts behind the UFO myth. The single most important factor supporting this view has been the alleged crash of a UFO at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. […]
[PDF file]: […] no one knows for sure what motivated the historic break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the 1972 presidential campaign.2 Another unresolved puzzle is why President Nixon, who was apparently ignorant of plans for the burglary, did not simply fire those involved and cut his losses. What cost him the presidency was not […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post – but it never appeared in print. Richard Nixon’s flashing of […]
[PDF file]: […] and his close aide Clyde Tolson under surveillance to determine if they had a homosexual relationship, but came up emptyhanded. See Mark Feldstein, Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), pp. 137-139. ‘lavender scare’ led to the firing of almost […]
[PDF file]: […] any information, I do not want any information that comes in from you on these delicate and sensitive subjects to go to anybody outside . . .” Nixon was finally ready to tip his hand. “The ‘Who shot John?’ angle,” he said quietly, 17 minutes into the conversation. Nixon did not dwell on the […]
[PDF file]: […] any information, I do not want any information that comes in from you on these delicate and sensitive subjects to go to anybody outside . . .” Nixon was finally ready to tip his hand. “The ‘Who shot John?’ angle,” he said quietly, 17 minutes into the conversation. Nixon did not dwell on the […]
