[…] created by the military rather than inborn. The parallels to Valentine’s Ellsberg piece struck me as uncanny. There never was a solid explanation as to why the Watergate burglars went after his shrink’s files. Or why Hunt claimed the Ellsberg file was never covertly photographed, when apparently it was. I suspect those photos went […]
[…] against Goulart. Branco was a friend of 20 years’ standing. 1972-76 While still in the army Walters was deputy director of CIA and helped The Service through Watergate and the Pinochet coup against Allende in Chile. He was involved in the assassination of Allende’s former defence minister, Orlando Letelier. 1976-81 Employed apparently in the […]
[…] been that it was simply caused by between Greece and Turkey and their respective internal political situations at the time; and that in the immediate aftermath of Watergate, the United States took its eye off the ball, ‘allowing’ the invasion almost inadvertently. There have been dissenting views, mostly from the Greek Cypriots. In their […]
[…] events link together. Neither does he help us comprehend why Nixon supposedly complained about ‘that asshole Roberts’ during the infamous 18 1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Nor does Roberts ever explain his claims of personal responsibility for Wategate, the Nixon resignation, and General Motors’ settlement offer to Ralph Nader (which ended […]
[PDF file]: […] Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]
[PDF file]: […] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]
[…] recorded in the White House of Richard Nixon’s conversations with CIA Director of the time, Richard Helms. N.B. that this recording was made eight months before the Watergate break-ins. “What I want, what I want, Dick,” he rasped, “regarding any 6 or 7 4 understanding, regarding any information, I do not want any information […]
[PDF file]: […] commitment to modernisation, transparency and normalization.’ ‘Normalization’? What next? Can ‘woke’ Masons be far away? Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]
