Watergate revisited: Hougan’s Secret Agenda Introduction No apologies for returning to Jim Hougan’s Secret Agenda. As Steve Dorril said in Lobster 8, this is a major event. This essay is in two parts. In the first I make some critical remarks about Secret Agenda’s central theses; In the second I speculate about other […]
[PDF file]: Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven Robert Merrit Walterville (OR): TrineDay, 2011, 240 pages, index; p/b, (US) $19.95 www.TrineDay.net This is a very interesting bad book with a misleading title. It’s bad […]
Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is […]
[…] America: one of the major items of American parapolitics got aired in court. In the years following the events which led to Nixon’s resignation, there were many Watergate books, not least those written by the participants in the drama – Dean, Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman and Nixon himself. They all offered up variations on the […]
[…] along comes Mr. Felt. Who is applauded, but not much examined. Who is he, other than a G-man? Well, he’s the fellow who was outraged by the Watergate break-in, which (we’re told) was about Nixon’s evil spooks breaking into, and bugging, the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate. (Never mind that the only bugging […]
[…] the serious investigative journalist’s care with sources and that simple, transparent style which lets the reporting speak for itself. 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 […]
[PDF file]: The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection Jonathan Marshall1 June 18, 1972 was a mostly uneventful news day in the pages of America’s leading newspapers. The New York Times reported on its front page that the musical ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ had just completed its 3,225th performance on Broadway. Anyone scanning the front […]
[PDF file]: Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]
[PDF file]: Deep Kiss How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all Garrick Alder At the height of the Watergate scandal, in summer 1974, Dr Henry Kissinger tried to tell the world about an act of treason that had been committed by President Richard Nixon over the Vietnam War. The information was passed […]
[…] of Deep Throat’s identity. Basically, I conclude that if Throat was a prominent member of the Nixon Administration, well-known to the public at the time of the Watergate affair, then he can only have been General Alexander Haig. But there is no reason to assume that. Throat could just as easily have been a […]
