[…] Professor Lewis was the only Prosecution witness to give significant testimony on the ‘restricted’ document; and he claimed he could personally identify its use on Britain’s ALARM missile. Professor Lewis also claimed the document would enable an enemy to jam ALARM, which would put British lives at risk. He further claimed that Saddam Hussein […]
[…] are now revered, looked after and recycled as major tourist attractions. We are, of course, unlikely to see that happen to this collection of control towers, runways, missile pads, command posts, watchtowers and other assorted redundancies. But who would have thought back in 1962 that the then heavily defended Thor Missiles Main Base at […]
[…] label), and technical products for various industries, including the defence department of the USA. In the latter it is listed as producing aircraft radomes, rocket motor cases, missile and rocket tubes, pressure vessels, transportable shelters, camouflage materials, and other products for defensive systems against chemical/biological warfare etc. I can only speculate here that some […]
[…] dangerous because it was an unknown. (8) Which group? Right or left? The Soviets? Cubans? None of the alternatives promised anything but horrors: some promised a Cuban Missile Crisis – or worse. Did the SS have any real choice, any political alternative, but make sure the ‘best evidence’ (the corpse) fitted the existence of […]
[…] have to be partisan. As a result, an image that had ‘legs’ was not even considered, let alone used. Good PR is about accurate communications. Unlike a missile marked ‘Patriot’ (5) or ‘Made in Britain’, a T-shirt can strike its target precisely. Hatred of the USA And so to al-Qaida’s second political message, hatred […]
[…] the work of other, more substantial, JFK researchers. CIA admits overestimating Soviet weapons Newly declassified documents in the US show that the CIA exaggerated the Soviet Unions missile programme. ‘The summary of a 1989 CIA internal review said every major intelligence assessment from 1974 to 1986 – a period covering at least three presidencies […]
[…] of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the military it was straightforward: the US had the strategic nuclear advantage (the ‘ missile gap’ had been forgotten) and thus could and should invade Cuba. Never mind even pretending to the world that it was a Cuban insurrection – the […]
Clint Eastwood Movies Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and to be released in Britain in December 2006, is an example of post-9-11 PR. It tells the story of the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima and has been described as the first film in which the balance of combat and public relations has … Read more
[…] friend in the sixties of another CIA station Chief, Archie Roosevelt. (10) Both Brown and Gaitskell later received secret briefings from Cooper and Roosevelt on the Cuban Missile Crisis. This relationship with United States agencies developed when Brown accepted ‘one of the American Congressional Trusts which enabled me to spend six weeks in the […]
Covert Action: The Roots of Terrorism Edited by Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap Melbourne and New York: Ocean Press, 2003, £14.95 The Politics of Anti-Semitism Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Oakland (US) and Edinburgh: AK Press, 2003, £9.00/$12.95 The Betrayal of Dissent: Beyond Orwell, Hitchens and the New American Century Scott … Read more
