From Eve Ottenberg in Counterpunch
“Jefferson Morley’s Scorpion’s Dance, the President, the Spymaster and Watergate, details decades of CIA funny-business, and there was loads of it. Indeed, if you ever wonder how the world got to be such a mess and who’s responsible, read this book.
In which we unravel the “whole Bay of Pigs thing,” and how Hollywood glamorizes the CIA
A friend writes: “I’m recommending a fantastic chat between Aaron Good and Jefferson Morley, two of the most cogent and relevant analysts of the Cold War’s domestic political legacy. It’s “about” Watergate, but it covers so much more than that. Take the time and have a deeper understanding of the break-in, the burglars,….
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In RealClearPolitics James Rosen grapples with the legacy of Jim Hougan’s groundbreaking Watergate book, Secret Agenda.’ …
Watergate at 50: revelations from newly declassified evidenceRead More »
A former CIA military trainer gets real about one Agency operation to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Doug Horne, formerly of the Assassination Records Review Board, talks about what i think is the single most significant finding of the ARRB: Operation Northwoods, the template for November 22, 1963.
On Thursday night, June 16, I’ll be talking about the myths of Watergate with Eddie Becker, historian of American power in the city of Washington, D.C.
We will appear at Lost City Bookstore, a very cool new and used book emporium at 2467 18th Street Northwest in Washington D.C. The show starts at 7:30 pm.
Listen to the story: “The CIA had no involvement in the break-in,” said the duly sworn witness Richard Helms. “No involvement whatever.'”
…The Rockefeller Commission wanted to know: Was the Watergate burglar involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?
…I’ll be speaking on a conference panel on The Watergate Break-in: 50 Years Later at 11: 45 am ET today.
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[ICYMI Part I : A veteran officer analyzes the death of a president / Part II: ‘The very top people.’ / ]
CIA veteran Rolf Mowatt-Larseen proposed a “thought experiment” to the November 2019 JFK conference in Dallas. He reverse-engineered the lone gunman scenario, posing a question both novel and incisive.
“How can you get away with a really elaborate but very simple plan of deception, to end up in a place where the president is dead and it is blamed on someone else, other than the people who perpetrated it?” he asked. “Not easy.”
…CIA tradecraft & JFK’s assassination: the making of a patsyRead More »
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