[…] he was removed. According to Morley this was at the behest of Richard Helms who felt that Whitten might reveal too much of the CIA’s awareness of Oswald prior to the shooting. It was not until 1996 that Whitten’s lengthy deposition (made under the pseudonym ‘John Scelso’) was finally declassified by the Assassination Records […]
[…] photographic laboratory in Washington D.C. That a second rifle (not the Mannlicher-Carcano supposedly used in the slaying) was found and photographed on Nov. 22. That Lee Harvey Oswald was deliberately dressed in “black clothing” immediately before his murder to emphasize his evilness as compared with the white-suited detective on his shoulder. That members of […]
[…] was marked by anxiety, a sense of power circumscribed by an awareness of danger, as was Ruskin’s – the self-appointed guardian of the old and decaying order.(37) Oswald Spengler, for reasons of his own, also branded Rhodes as the harbinger of a new age who pointed the way out of the decline of Western […]
Paul Johnson, former editor of the New Statesman turned ‘new right’ Thatcherite, turned his hack hand to KAL 007 in a review of Alexander Dallin’s Black Box KAL 007 and the Superpowers (University of California Press 1985) in the Times Literary Supplement (August 23 1985). Johnson asks the question: “How could a Korean pilot skilful […]
[…] without being told at the time what it was and still suffers flashbacks … The CIA Project Artichoke at Atsugi, Japan, begun in 1952, where Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed (See Did Lee Harvey Oswald Drop Acid? in Rolling Stone 13th March 1983) Howard Marks was arrested after dealing with the remnants of the […]
[…] to 26,000. To this reader, such a dramatic changing of coats suggests that his socialism had only ever been worn lightly. The man Beckett chose to follow, Oswald Mosley, has been the subject of an attempted major rehabilitation job in the last thirty odd years. His own autobiography, My Life (1969) and Robert Skidelsky’s […]
[…] member of the SDP. In his recent The Squandered Peace (London 1983) he tackles Kennedy’s assassination. In one half page (p. 294) he tells us (a) that Oswald had been arrested for distributing pro-Castro leaflets in Florida (actually it was in New Orleans); (b) that Oswald was ‘mentally unbalanced’ (said who?); and (c) that […]
[…] serious and famous Dutch clairvoyant’ named Gerard Croiset in 1967. Croiset wanted to talk about the assassination and described a vision of a conspirator who had manipulated Oswald. Croiset’s description is reputed to have led Oltmans to George de Morenschild, the White Russian exile, petroleum geologist, and CIA contact who befriended Oswald in Texas […]
[…] country where sewage flowing in the streets is accepted as normal?’ During this period Lord Londonderry was corresponding in a similar vein on similar topics with Sir Oswald Mosley, who, at 81 years of age, was still ‘awaiting the call’ to return and salvage Britain from its great decline. Such letters reflect the sense […]
[…] the Cold War sent false defectors to the other side. Having defected, Nosenko told his CIA hosts that, inter alia, he had been in charge of the Oswald file in the Soviet Union and that they, the KGB, hadn’t trusted him and had ignored him. Thus the Soviets had nothing to do with JFK’s […]
