[…] and tactfully described as a Chilean Rupert Murdoch) had already been lobbying influential Americans to argue for ‘aggressive US intervention’ to remove Allende, and eventually met with Nixon and Kissinger to further press his case. He succeeded and the US did indeed intervene. El Mercurio (bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars by […]
[…] use of our territory without notification, let alone consultation, as if NATO did not exist.’ The Americans were not pleased and viewed him as dangerously pro-Arab. President Nixon openly alleged that his “softness’ towards the Arabs was an attempt to safeguard his Ostpolitik by supporting the Soviet Union in the Middle East. Kissinger and […]
[…] Professor Bill Gaines of the University of Illinois announced that, after four years, he and his journalism students had concluded that Fred Fielding (former assistant to President Nixon) was ‘Deep Throat’ who provided information about the Watergate break-in. This site contains a great deal of material related to the investigation conducted by Gaines and […]
[…] with explicating the Church’s overt attempts to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) […]
[…] were worried that the country’s socialist regime would harm profits). Mind you, Bernays did later turn down an attempt to hire him made by presidential hopeful Richard Nixon, showing that the bottom of even the deepest barrel can be scraped eventually. But by then, the road that led to 1991’s fictitious tales of baby-killing […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
