[…] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]
[…] Russian-backed Ukrainians did it, despite an almost complete lack of evidence, are stuck with their initial decision. And great powers do not admit their errors: think of Lockerbie, or the downing of the Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes in 1988.2 7 Which means that if the US intelligence community does finally conclude that […]
[PDF file]: […] that the US government or its corporations found objectionable or an obstacle. The two most infamous fabrications were the so-called LaBelle disco bombing in Berlin and the Lockerbie aircraft bombing. Both of these events were attributed to Libya and hence to Qaddafi without the slightest verifiable proof. Although to this day no unimpeachable evidence […]
[PDF file]: […] Sikorski’s wife, the former Evening Standard and Spectator journalist Anne Applebaum, was booked in 1988 to fly on the Pan Am 103 flight that came down over Lockerbie. ‘About a week before the flight, however, I postponed my trip simply in order to stay a day longer with friends in Oxford,’ she has written. […]
[PDF file]: […] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]
