[…] awash in American money and case officers. The politicians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys had good reason for doing something: a Presidential election […]
[…] Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the Cold War. In 1975 President […]
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
[…] least partly orchestrated from quarters (rather than discounted as a random phenomenon). In fact, one aspect of the Trilateral interregnum covering the period between the fall of Nixon and the Reagan-Bush era may have been that in the absence of a really effective hegemonic concept of control, violence was resorted to in order to […]
[…] political ambitions for JFK and RFK. A detailed comparison of how the Kennedys generally wished to balance US domestic and international priorities, versus the balance sought by Nixon, Reagan and others, might well have provided readers of the Matthew Smith book with some material to flesh out his otherwise over simple conclusions. It is […]
[…] the disposition which the receiving country will make of the equipment and trainees. In fact, from Mexico to Argentina, receiving countries – following the example of Richard Nixon in the United States – have not hesitated to use narcotics aid to deal with domestic insurgency, by the simple expedient of identifying insurgents with narcotics. […]
[…] other agencies.’ The roundtable people/person interpret the near universal membership of the CFR among US elite managers to mean that the CFR is running the US. But Nixon was in the CFR at the same time as the Trilateral Commission – a CFR spin-off also extensively documented by the roundtable – was grooming Jimmy […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
