[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
[…] verifiability we shall define the ‘establishment media’ as including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time-Life, Newsweek, Readers Digest and the three major television networks). Since Watergate, and the dramatic collapse of the press-government anti-Communist consensus, it in possible that this relative immunity is no longer unassailable. First in conjunction with Vietnam, then […]
[…] Involving Foreign Leaders – Senate Report No 94-465, 94th Congress. 1st. Session (November 20, 1975), pp200-06. Henceforth cited as Assassination Report McCoy. pp 54-55 U.S. Congress. Senate, Watergate Hearings, Vol. 21 p9750 J. Anthony Lukas, Nightmare: the Underside of the Nixon Years (New York, Viking, 1976): p14: Watergate Hearings, Vol.1 pp249-50 Assassination Report, p131; […]
[…] it. We gave out copies of Lobster 11, talked briefly, answered one or two questions, said this story of covert manipulation of British politics was the British Watergate – that was the heading on our press release – and got back on the train. I thought that would be that. The journalists would read […]
[…] its publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving ‘Transnationalised Repression’. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies ( Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview […]
