[…] essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, notably Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, revealed details of the Agency’s operations. […]
[PDF file]: […] Israeli request for 200 tons of military equipment, Golan claimed that Kissinger had ‘no intention of fulfilling those needs’. Left in control because of Nixon’s preoccupation with Watergate, Golan claims that Kissinger fed the Israeli Ambassador with ‘expressions of solidarity and empty promises’, but made no move on any shipments. Golan suggests the delay […]
[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 […]
[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, […]
[…] 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, […]
[PDF file]: […] number of analysts in 1960s and 70s to explain the tumult of those times: the assassinations of the President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert, the Watergate scandal, and the moral and strategic disaster that was the Vietnam War. The late Carl Oglesby in his book The Yankee and Cowboy War (1976), for […]
[PDF file]: […] Castro specifically mentions the CIA-backed JMWAVE maritime raiders. These anti-Castro Cuban commandos were infiltrated into Cuba with high powered rifles that, as JMWAVE boat captain and later Watergate burglar Eugenio Martinez said, ‘were not to be used for hunting rabbits’. (Some of the JMWAVE commandos were captured and paraded on Cuban TV with their […]
[PDF file]: […] she calls ‘conspiracy facts’ – and conspiracy theories, that in many ways serve to distract from, and cover-up, what is actually going on. As she points out: Watergate, Iran-Contra, the CIA’s MKUltra mind control experiments, the aborted 1960s false flag Operation Northwoods and other US government plots were all, at some point, labeled wild […]
