[…] clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the Page 93 Summer 2011 Lobster 61 likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at Page 94 Summer […]
[PDF file]: […] their real life counter-parts, including 007’s CIA associate Felix Leiter. Shakespeare goes to great lengths to describe how Fleming came to meet and have dinner with then Senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was recovering from back surgery he received a copy of Casino Royale from Marion Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown, Washington D.C. neighbour […]
[…] their real life counter-parts, including 007’s CIA associate Felix Leiter. Shakespeare goes to great lengths to describe how Fleming came to meet and have dinner with then Senator John F. Kennedy. When Kennedy was recovering from back surgery he received a copy of Casino Royale from Marion Oatsie Leiter, a Georgetown, Washington D.C. neighbour […]
[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]
[PDF file]: […] for much longer. Why was the purge here so restrained, compared to the situation in the United States, where even ‘Comrade Attlee’ was to be condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in […]
[…] attempt was mounted on top of a fake attempt. The author quotes claims by Gary Wean, a former detective sergeant for the Los Angeles Police, that Texas Senator John Tower told him: There was to be an attempt on the life of President Kennedy so realistic that its failure would be looked upon as […]
[PDF file]: […] it is clear that Wallace got his security clearance over the objections of the security people. Presumably, though not demonstrably, this influence was coming from (the then) Senator Johnson. Why LBJ was doing all this for Wallace is unexplained. There is little on the Wallace-Johnson relationship: one suggestion from a journalist who was researching […]
