The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[…] 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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] attributes the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt.93 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 […]

Lobster 11

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[…] 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 […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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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 […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[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, […]

When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Out ‘The daily drama in Wilson’s kitchen cabinet was a Strindberg play with scenes from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.’ (p. 214) We get another go round Watergate and Nixon without any of the more recent work on the story. He portrays all manner of potentially interesting material, and declines to draw any conclusions […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] 1 ‘Just a Drop Can Kill’, for The New Republic, 6 May 1967. From then on the list of his exposés is long. He reported on the Watergate scandal for the New York Times (had Fox News existed at the time would Nixon have got away with it?); he helped destroy the reputation of […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to work for it himself, […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency without having to work for it himself, […]

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