[…] the CIA’s strong involvement with Moroccan intelligence forces – which led to their implication with Christian David and other members of Joe Attia’s gang in the 1965 murder of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka. (132) In 1977, when an Angolan MPLA force with Soviet and Cuban backing invaded Zaire, Moroccan forces with French-U.S. […]
Daniele Ganser London: Frank Cass, 2005, £22.99, p/b Country by country the author has assembled what has been made public about the Gladio network since it was revealed in 1990. There are even 3 pages on the Gladio network in Luxembourg. Much of this is appearing in English for the first time and it … Read more
[…] there is a real possibility that the Court of Appeal would not uphold the conviction. The book illustrates how wrongfully convicted prisoners who are ‘in denial of murder’ can end up serving many years over their tariff and more than if they had been guilty. Stephen Downing, who served 28 years before being […]
[…] — John Hunter, Sunday World, 24 April 1983. British spy link with Kincora — Phoenix, 16 September 1983, pp.12-14. Kincora link in my child’s slaying. The brutal murder that shocked war-torn Ulster — Jim Campbell and John Hunter, Sunday World, 2 October 1983, pp.1-2. Curse of Kincora — Phoenix, 11 November 1983. Kincora: spy’s […]
Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith Feral House, PO Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208 (), 1996, $19.95 Of all the current parapolitical ‘biggies’ floating around, the one I would not have enjoyed trying to piece together is this one; and I am grateful to Thomas and Keith for doing so. Casolaro was, on this account, a … Read more
[…] since 1975, Bosch was drawing money and a false passport supplied by DINA, whose national security advisor, Walter Rauff, was a Nazi war criminal wanted for the murder of 97,000 Jews in gassing vans. Rauff, who escaped via the Vatican monasteries of Bishop Hudal in 1947, became a leading representative of the Skorzeny network […]
[…] pursuing miscarriage of justice cases. Speakers included Don Hale, the journalist who campaigned to clear the name of Stephen Downing, who served 27 years for the 1973 murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell; Kevin McMahon of Merseyside Against Injustice, who previously worked for Merseyside Police and later became a detective and Special Branch Officer; […]
[…] soon had agents employed in a number of activities in violation of U.S. law, from illegal arms sales and narcotics trafficking (the two often going together) to murder. When the Gehlen Org became the West German Intelligence Service in 1956, CIA support, though not terminated, was drastically reduced. (80) And, as a rule, the […]
The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. … Read more
[…] up a pseudo-gang to terrorise Catholics. He had also infiltrated the UDA in 1972 to 1973. None of the others in the gang were ever charged with murder, but Baker was jailed after pleading guilty. He was secretly visited in his cell by Lord Windlesham, then Minister of State at Stormont. He was later […]