Introduction What follows is an interim report about Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. In so far as it has a central thesis, it is that Jones initiated the Jonestown massacre because he feared that Congressman Leo Ryan’s investigation would disgrace him. Specifically, Jones feared that Ryan and the press would uncover evidence that the […]
[…] MKULTRA Program, which remains very much a mystery, primarily because its chief operating officer, Dr Sid Gottlieb, destroyed the majority of MKULTRA documents in 1973 during the Watergate scramble to plug leaks and obliterate history. Helping Gottlieb destroy these documents was the then Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms. But due to one family’s […]
[…] dictator. Although this story is quite widely accepted among the US conspiracy buffs, the exact status it has remains unclear to me. Tackwood linked two of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, McCord and Hunt, to the LAPD. (The various official Watergate enquiries managed to miss all this.) In 1975 the Los Angeles Police Commission (a civilian […]
[…] the CIA. Epstein writes for all the world as if none of the revelations about the real nature of American political life that occurred between Dallas and Watergate, had ever existed; and in this innocent world of black hats and white hats he would have us believe that only James Angleton, the erstwhile head […]
[…] Tetra was debated in the House of Commons in March 2005.(12) During the debate several MPs reported their constituents’ complains of ill-health generated by the Tetra masts. Watergate: why Spencer Oliver’s phone was tapped When the Nixon White House ‘plumbers’ broke into the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) they placed taps […]
[…] beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, had taken part in the assassination of John Kennedy. The admission would be a ‘limited hang-out’. Hunt sued Spotlight; Marchetti had — or was willing […]
[…] 40 years Italy’s political system has been subverted by US-funded parapolitics, demonstrating the universal application of the late Ralph J. Gleason’s First Law of American Politics After Watergate: no matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you could possibly imagine. In Italy’s case, not only was it worse, it […]
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 […]
[…] Roberts, to his mother, copies of which were given to the recently deceased American conspiracy theorist and researcher, Mae Brussel, at the end of 1972, just as Watergate was flickering into life. In 1977 Brussel described Roberts’ letters to a friend of mine as ‘repetitious, giberous, libelous and unsubstantiated’; which, coming from Mae Brussel, […]
[…] This is two complete pages plus, a brilliant summary of the text as well as the best account of the weight of the Wallace material -‘The British Watergate’. The Foot book was raised in Parliament by Ken Livingstone (Hansard 27/6/89 columns 943 – 952) and by Tam Dalyell (Hansard 8/6/89 columns 428- 431). Both […]
