Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] other Mafia figures. This ‘confession’ is merely a factor in one of the puzzles: how many assassination plots were there? Before he died former CIA officer and Watergate ‘plumber’, E. Howard Hunt, seemed to be talking of there being several plots;(7) and there are fragments of apparent advance information – for example: Milteer, Cheramie, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, that means it is not illegal’….’ Oh, so it wasn’t until then that Nixon was finally sunk, and by this […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] days of the Dulles brothers. And to a very depressing extent they were happy to do so. Parry wonders how the US media, which ran with the Watergate story and all its ramifications in the 1970s, ended up, less than a decade later, becoming accomplices to the murder of American nuns in Central America. […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] this contains an account of the intelligence cold war, and large chunks of American political life from post-WW2 to beyond Angleton’s fall in 1974 and the post- Watergate Senate and Congressional inquiries. This is seriously good history, as well as a biography; Holzman is a very good writer, with a style somewhere between the […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat, for which I was pilloried by the media …in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]
[PDF file]: […] recorded in the White House of Richard Nixon’s conversations with CIA Director of the time, Richard Helms. N.B. that this recording was made eight months before the Watergate break-ins. “What I want, what I want, Dick,” he rasped, “regarding any 6 or 7 4 understanding, regarding any information, I do not want any information […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] commitment to modernisation, transparency and normalization.’ ‘Normalization’? What next? Can ‘woke’ Masons be far away? Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]