[PDF file]: […] Hougan Did a pre-presidential meeting in the jungle between Nixon and a militaristic priest escalate ‘Nam? ‘A Call from Hunt: Inside the First Hours and Days of Watergate’ by Douglas Caddy ‘A Strange New Watergate Book: Lamar Waldron & Watergate’ by James DiEugenio So: this is some of the A-team as far as parapolitics […]
[PDF file]: […] further to the right. That change has been achieved partly by money, but partly also with the assistance of deep events: events, such as the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, the 1980 October Surprise, Iran-Contra and 9/11, which repeatedly have involved lawbreaking and/or violence, have been mysterious to begin with, and whose mystery has been compounded […]
[PDF file]: […] pol who, last year, published a book arguing the LBJ’s-people-killed-JFK case.53 In the Daily Mail recently there was a puff piece for his new book on Nixon, Watergate et al, Nixon’s Secrets.54 In that, this sentence about Gerry Hemming appears, complete with the brackets: (For the conspiracy-minded, ‘Nixon’s Secrets’ also notes that Hemming had […]
[PDF file]: […] mildly interesting but not significant. ‘Stone lays out the connections between the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco, the JFK assassination and the fall of Richard Nixon in Watergate. Stone outlines how Nixon manoeuvred furiously to obtain CIA records that would shed light on CIA-Mob connections to the JFK assassination as an “insurance policy” against […]
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] sort of terrain does the armourplated crustacean cover? Recent issues have examined the impact of naval sonar devices on whales (it kills them), an alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in […]
[PDF file]: […] Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob Woodward’s Fear was an instant international bestseller, with sales promoted by both his Watergate reputation and by the fascination that the deranged President Trump excites. Could the man who helped bring down the last crook to occupy the White House, […]
[PDF file]: […] the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt. (94). Pincher adds that at the time of Watergate (1973? 1974?) “Tory MPs were promoting the idea that Wilson faced a ‘babygate’”, noting that “the Tory leadership had been given full information about the problems […]
[PDF file]: […] controversially 87 George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), p. 463; and Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 184-185. 88 Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White […]
[…] I guess there are limits to what Times readers can be expected to digest over breakfast. Coups are US If you have read Jonathan Marshall’s essay on Watergate in this issue of Lobster, you will have some idea of what to expect in his new essay, ‘U.S. Cold War Policy and the Italian Far-Right: […]
[…] in profits and if green-lefty stuff makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low […]
