Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the private spook subculture knew ‘the plumbers’ were going into the DNC. However, since McCord and Hunt are dead and Martinez, though alive, won’t talk, we may never know […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire Douglas Valentine Orgeon: TrineDay, 2023, $24.95 www.TrineDay.com Robin Ramsay This is a very striking and curious piece of work. It recounts a journey Valentine took in 1991 to Thailand and Vietnam to interview three retired CIA officers living there. They had been part of CIA ops in the […]

View from Bridge 88 copy

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty We’ve had at least a century of essays and books bemoaning British decline. This a nicely surveyed in Andrew Gamble’s ‘Britain’s eternal decline’ in the New Statesman in September last year.1 […]

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