[…] looked less ridiculous doing it.) Parmet, a historian, fails to convey that sense of history. His perspective is hampered somewhat by his role as one of the new defenders of the Warren Commission report on Kennedy’s assassination. It’s almost nostalgic to read Parmet seriously quoting Warren Commission lawyer Bellin’s view that Jack Ruby’s encounter […]
[…] it! Peter Jordan Peter Jordan first achieved local fame when he spread tin-tacks on the pitch of the Bristol rugby ground at half-time on the afternoon of New Year’s eve 1969. The West of England regional team were playing the touring South Africans and this was the culmination of a campaign against the tour […]
[…] had seen its factory in Germany seized by the Nazis during the war. Violet resolved the problem and Pinay was so satisfied he recommended him to the new French intelligence organization, SDECE. Violet duly became an SDECE operative, utilizing a global network of contacts to assist that agency in its work.(2) Violet’s early post-war […]
[…] think of one. Some of this material was presented in greater detail in Pepper’s first book on the case, Orders to Kill (reviewed in Lobster 32). This new account briefly reruns that and adds much new information and an account of the successful civil trial Pepper brought against one of the conspirators after a […]
[…] the problem.’ According to one former CIA operative, we are ‘an Islamist swamp’. So much so that 40 per cent of ‘CIA activity designed to prevent a new terrorist spectacular on American soil is now directed at targets in the UK.’(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the ‘War on Terror’ […]
[…] countries, Fortean Times; also links to related newsgroups. Area 51 http://www.ufomind.com/area51/ Critical assessment of Area 51 and the conspiracy theories surrounding it. Includes FAQs, articles, maps, photos, latest news, testimonials, UFO claims, articles from national and other newspapers, and the claims of Bob Lazar. Lazar’s site is at http://www.ufomind.com/area51/people/lazar/ Organisations and Campaigns Federation of […]
Peter Oborne and Simon Walters London: Aurum Press, 2004 p/back, £8.99 If you were going to read only one book on New Labour, this account of the New Labour people and their relationships with the media, from the days of opposition through to Campbell’s resignation in the wake of the death of Dr […]
[…] left of British politics – including this writer – that the Conservative Party was in the control of people about whom, and about whose thinking, they k new almost nothing. The readily available sources of information on the Tories were then slight: in practice, there was Searchlight and Labour Research. Pursuing its aim of […]
[…] Kronisch, as executrix of his estate, proceed with the suit – despite a series of legal setbacks. Then on 9 July 1998, according to the 13 July New York Law Journal, Judge Jose A Cadranes, ‘writing for a unanimous court’, ruled that an ‘adverse influence’ could be drawn from Dr Gottlieb’s destruction of documents, […]
[…] this dilemma by retracting his pre-1987 claims about MI5 plots against Wilson. He began this in his The Spycatcher Affair:a Web of Deception, and continues in this new book. The Truth About Dirty Tricks also contains a staggeringly inaccurate chapter on the Colin Wallace Affair. After a life-time of recycling official ‘leaks’, Pincher was […]
