[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] black-magic, soul-cracking brain-washing techniques on young boys.’ This must be the late Tom Driberg MP, (And why are homosexuals so frequently described as ‘raging’?) En Passant ‘ Nixon stole the election in 1968 from Humphrey by sabotaging the Democrats’ peace talks with Vietnam.’ Thus the BBC’s Charles Wheeler, quoting William Bundy and Clark Clifford. […]
