Hess: A Tale of Two Murders Hugh Thomas Hodder and Stoughton, London 1988 This is an update of Thomas’ 1979, The Murder of Rudolf Hess. Thomas argues (a) that the ‘Hess’ in Spandau prison wasn’t Hess at all but a double; and (b) that both the real and false Hess were murdered. The first proposition … Read more
[…] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]
[PDF file]: […] the subject was sparked by an anonymous former Warren Commission attorney who complained that they were not given the full facts, especially about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro.3 Although a great deal was kept from the Warren Commission, Shenon believes they got it right: the president was killed by one […]
[PDF file]: […] to be had. But as he was worried that his victim would seek medical treatment and talk to the police, Manson ordered his follower Bobby Beausoleil to kill him. Beausoleil stabbed Hinman to death and used his blood to write ‘Political Piggy’ on the wall. Hinman’s body was discovered by friends on 31 July. […]
[PDF file]: […] reports on these to MI5 – though their accuracy and value were disputed. In 1936 Bannigan gave a garble account to his handlers of a ‘plot’ to kill Edward VIII, which he had infiltrated, and within which he was – apparently – expected to act as assassin. The aim was to kill the King […]
[PDF file]: […] Soviet wife, Oswald resettled in Dallas among a community of right-wing oil men. At a party arranged for him to meet Michael Paine, Oswald was encouraged to kill General Edwin Walker, a crime he 4 5 She would later marry and become Priscilla Johnson McMillan/Priscilla McMillan. 6 has also been accused of committing. After […]
[PDF file]: […] in the United States today we have a far right that is both Armed and Dangerous. ‘The Trump insurgency in the United States’ In They Want To Kill Americans,1 Malcolm Nance describes the scene at the Michigan state capitol building in April 2020, after Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered a Covid lockdown and mandated the […]
[…] in the United States today we have a far right that is both Armed and Dangerous. ‘The Trump insurgency in the United States’ In They Want To Kill Americans,1 Malcolm Nance describes the scene at the Michigan state capitol building in April 2020, after Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered a Covid lockdown and mandated the […]
