[…] so far as I can judge, the author recounts a complete story within the picture she gives. Of course, much of the essential story may remain perpetually hidden, and readers of Lobster may know more of some aspects than is revealed in this book’s 279 pages. What I found most compelling was the growing […]
[…] towards this end utilising every appropriate resource. It is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the USG and American Hand be well hidden…’ (www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch05-01.htm) ‘Deathsquad Dossier’ and relevant declassified documents from the NSA’s Guatemala Collection. (www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB15/press.html); Tiananmen Square 1989, the Declassified History. A collection of recently declassified documents covering […]
[…] evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of the Labour Party by ‘communists’ and, in the 1979 version, by ‘communist’ […]
[…] all 290 Moslems aboard, in Islamic airspace earlier in the year. A warning went out to European airports in early December, 1988, to watch out for bombs hidden in cassette recorders. The American embassy in Helsinki received a message on 5 December, 1988, that ‘within the next few weeks’ there would be an attack […]
[…] established: ‘Sometime in this period, the American Intelligence community got what apparently was its first look, via the KH-11 , at the completed and operational missile launchers hidden in the side of a hill…. The launchers were left in the open, perhaps deliberately, making it much easier for American photo-interpreters to spot them.’(12) This […]
[…] and it became in many countries a criminal offence to subscribe to or propagate such views. Goodrick-Clarke shows how the new generation of ultra-rightists have, as ever, hidden behind an array of diversionary symbols: the Knights Templar, ancient civilisations, ley lines, deluges, Atlantis, the hollow earth (also a favourite pre-1945), Nazi UFOs, alien abductions, […]
[…] One of the POWs claimed to be the officer who wrote the North Vietnamese navy’s assessment of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Intrigued by this peek at hidden history, Tourison let the man rattle on. Unfortunately, neither the POW nor Tourison was in complete control of the facts. Tourison still thinks — as do […]
[…] as dramatic as that of Obama’s race, was a contentious one, and not just in my school-yard. It was presented more along the lines of Obama’s alleged hidden loyalty to Islam: a Catholic president, it was argued, would be subservient to his master in Rome. That Kennedy’s own political strategists brought the issue into […]
[…] event that triggered everything off, 9/11. Russ Kick here presents a fairly comprehensive piece, which should, if nothing else, make readers question the received wisdom on this. Hidden History is the theme for the fifth section. One very topical item is Ovidio Diaz-Espino’s wonderful piece about the building of the Panama Canal (instead of […]
[…] said, Garrison’s brave if erratically conducted quest, is that it can be used as a key to open up areas of the cold war which have been hidden from view. It is fairly well documented that the CIA assassinated the radical Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba, in 1961. It is also common knowledge that the […]
