Brian Brivati Richard Cohen, London, £25 At the height of Labour’s early 1980s challenge to the siting of a new generation of nuclear weapons in Britain, a rising trade union official was invited to the west London home of a former US labour attaché. On the recommendation of a colleague who was active in … Read more
[…] recently in the Sunday Times colour supplement. It seems that Hughes’ power extends beyond the grave in as much as Hughes so completely bankrolled Reagan’s key adviser Senator Paul Laxalt it is possible to see Reagan as Hughes’ dream come true: his own man in the White House. It may be interesting to read […]
[PDF file]: […] of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by hostile U.S. intelligence officials of unsubstantiated reports that Russian spies ‘tried to blackmail him […]
[PDF file]: […] the Nicaraguan Contras) being at that policy’s visible centre. In 1977 I was concerned about the access of foreign parafascists and WACL publicists to the office of Senator Thurmond and the staff of the National Security Council. Today General Singlaub, the President of WACL, has access, through his support work for the Contras, to […]
[PDF file]: […] the CIA to block an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure into his involvement in illegal wiretapping.51 The subcommittee was chaired by Senator Edward Long of Missouri, who was disturbed by recent revelations of extensive FBI electronic surveillance of the Mob owners of Las Vegas casinos. The illegal wiretaps […]
[PDF file]: […] at the Re-election Committee’.9 Dean turned first to an ex-New York City policeman who had undertaken sensitive assignments for the White House, including digging up dirt on Senator Edward Kennedy. But Dean and other top White House officials agreed this gumshoe was ‘an incredibly cautious person’ and therefore a bad choice. Dean knew of […]
[PDF file]: […] aggressive shareholder lawsuit launched by his take-no-prisoners New York attorney, Roy Cohn.49 Cohn had recently been forced to resign from his controversial job as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communisthunting committee, after being accused of misusing his power to win special privileges for his 25-year-old friend and ‘psychological warfare’ expert, David Schine. Cohn […]
[PDF file]: […] hope, so little sense’, The Times, 26 September 2002. 95 Financial Times, 6 July 2007 (emphasis added). those contenders who had supported the invasion. Forester had supported Senator Hilary Clinton, but when Barack Obama had won the Democrat nomination she had switched parties, to back the neo-conservative favourite Senator John McCain.96 Forester had justified […]
[PDF file]: […] overseen at cabinet level in then-Governor Bush’s executive).4 The official investigation of 9/11 was led by two of Jeb’s contemporary fellow Floridians, Representative Porter Goss (Rep.) and Senator Bob Graham (Dem.). Goss represented 2 Huffman Aviation has now closed. There is another flight school called Huffman Aviation in Texas, home state of Jeb’s brother […]
[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel […]
