Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
[…] very distraught telephone call during which Peachman informed me that he was “In terrible trouble”. He also stated that he could not go on and intended to kill himself. At this time I assumed Peachman’s state of mind was caused as a result of an investigation carried out into the affairs of IPI. Breaches […]
[…] although I do not minimise this. In Iraq, we have estimates of deaths in the region of 300,000600,000 since 2003 ()and, in Afghanistan, bombing raids still kill civilians.()If we are at war with insurgents, then the fear of the authorities that they might strike at us is simply the reflection of the dreadful […]
Wishing and hoping I met Tony Benn only once, while researching Smear! He’s a lovely man with a big blind spot about the politics of the early 1980s in general and the Militant Tendency in particular. Here’s Benn in the course of an appreciation of Arthur Scargill on his standing down as President of […]
This continues where Lobster 14‘s reprint of the piece from Tribune stopped. It was unfortunate that the debate over the status of Colin Wallace and his allegations really got going just as Lobster 14 went to the printer. Below is what followed. 27th August 1987. Colin Wallace letter in response to the John Ware article … Read more
[…] Long-range shooting is intrinsically unreliable and generally means that the assassins can’t get close enough to do it any other way. (Assuming that the intention was to kill; it might just have been to fire at Kennedy; the death a bonus.) This was true, for example, of some of the many attempts by the […]
[…] SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions were killed by a different brutal dictatorship. It is obviously all right, even laudable, to kill Ukrainians, Cambodians, Chinese, etc, These extracts from Turner’s letter takes us further into the issues which Cohen’s encounter with Robert Henderson raise. Take Turner’s comment, ‘To […]
[…] away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the story. Orders to Kill is an account of his involvement in the continuing investigation from 1978 to the present day. Pepper provides a participant’s view of all the major events […]
‘A Most Extraordinary Case’ Malcolm Kennedy says his telephones, post and e-mail are being interfered with. His attempts to seek answers have left him in a bureaucratic maze. Background ‘A most extraordinary case’ said Michael Mansfield QC, describing the events at Hammersmith Police Station on the night of December 23/24 1990. Two men – Patrick … Read more
Edited by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003 $24 p/back ISBN 0-922915-82-2 Let me first clarify the meaning of the subtitle. Probe, now defunct, was a US magazine devoted chiefly to research on the assassinations of the 1960s. I saw it occasionally and it was very good. I assumed this … Read more
