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View from the Bridge
The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)
[PDF file]: […] lawyer for the defence.’ This seems a bit less outrageous in light of the fact that Olmedo had in fact attempted to overthrow the Cuban government and assassinate Fidel Castro the previous year, in the unimaginatively-named August 30th Plot (Conspiración del 30 de Agosto). Olmedo was offered a reprieve if he would denounce the […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
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[PDF file]: […] in 2014 by the Oxford historian Avi Shlaim as ‘a war of deception that failed to achieve any of its grandiose geopolitical objectives’.6 A terrorist attempt to assassinate the Israeli ambassador gave Sharon his opportunity for war. He blamed the PLO for the assassination attempt. But he got his facts wrong. The PLO were […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
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[PDF file]: […] in 2014 by the Oxford historian Avi Shlaim as ‘a war of deception that failed to achieve any of its grandiose geopolitical objectives’.6 A terrorist attempt to assassinate the Israeli ambassador gave Sharon his opportunity for war. He blamed the PLO for the assassination attempt. But he got his facts wrong. The PLO were […]
The view from the bridge
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Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher
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[PDF file]: […] in the Irish Republic, including the arrest of two patrols in plain clothes by the Irish police. 6. The plot to recruit an ex-professional football player to assassinate Provisional IRA officer Martin Meehan in Dundalk. 7. The leaking of material by MI5, on MI6 operations, including the production of a booklet on the Littlejohns, […]
View from Bridge 89
[…] Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, but predictable from that source. That same day I saw this paragraph: For decades, American presidents have waged illegal wars, plotted to assassinate foreign leaders, unlawfully detained and tortured people, toppled democratic governments, and supported repressive regimes without any possibility of legal accountability in either domestic or international courts. […]