[…] with great concern because it illustrates the political difficulties we are likely to face if we become involved. Reference B which deals with the circumstances surrounding the murder of Brian McDermott last year puts forward the theory that the killing had both sexual and witchcraft overtones. The only link that can be identified between […]
[…] the sort which in 1965 preceded a more general massacre. The Pentagon certainly know the implications of dealing with Prabowo and Kopassus, a unit notorious for terror, murder, rape, and torture. Yet, when Congress banned training under the usual Pentagon program of International Military Education and Training (IMET), the Pentagon quietly kept on training […]
[…] Commonwealth History, 33 (2), May 2005, pp. 245-265. Hilda Murrell case closed? Twenty-one years after Hilda Murrell’s death, Andrew George was convicted of her kidnap and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment following a four week trial at Stafford Crown Court. () George, who was 16 at the time, living in a children’s […]
[…] taken of the event. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King’s in the 1960s and worked closely with him in some of his campaigns. After King’s murder he drifted away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the […]
[…] 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had been responsible for the murder.’ The fact that he expected a straight answer shows how distraught he was.(4) One point worth considering here is why it is that the United States […]
[…] said that police enquiries have been frustrated by the silence of a former military officer, Colin Wallace, currently serving a ten-year sentence in Lewes, Sussex, for the murder of his mistress’s husband in 1980. Wallace told both the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Sussex police that he would be in breach of the Official […]
[…] Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car journey; Mohamed Al Fayed accusing the Duke of Edinburgh of being the mastermind behind a plot to murder Diana and Dodi; and the possibility of inquests on Diana and Dodi taking place. A correction A significant correction to the article needs to be made. […]
[…] Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them in a form […]
[…] ‘Mac’ Wallace and LBJ thread which has been slowly insinuating itself into the JFK assassination research community. On p.40 Armstrong gives half a page to the 1951 murder by ‘Mac’ Wallace of a former boyfriend of LBJ’s sister. On p.656 Armstrong cites the Sample-Collum book, The Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy […]
Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 David Cesarani London: William Heinemann, 2009, h/b, £20 On 6 May 1947 a British undercover squad, under the command of Major Roy Farran, picked up sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz, a young Zionist activist. He was taken away for ‘interrogation’. After an hour […]
