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[PDF file]: […] of Clay Shaw, a gay New Orleans businessman who had been a contact of the CIA,8 who was tried for – and acquitted of – conspiracy to assassinate JFK by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. This is from the essay on Shaw’s address book by Anthony Edward Weeks which appeared in Lobster 20: […]
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Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran
[PDF file]: […] of US law.8 Two years on from Bradley Manning’s entrapment by Project Vigilant employee Adrian Lamo and Stratfor was ‘sexing-up’ the credibility of an incredible ‘plot’ to assassinate the Saudi 4 Lord Eric Avebury (Liberal Democrat) to the author, November 2011 5 Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth, ‘Two Year Manhunt led […]
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[…] next issue: ‘Referring to the controversy surrounding the death of Patrice Lumumba in 1960, Bernard Porter quotes Calder Walton’s conclusion: “The question remains whether British plots to assassinate Lumumba … ever amounted to anything. At present, we do not know” (LRB, 21 March). Actually, in this particular case, I can report that we do. […]