[…] is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The best published account of the period I know is in Political Murder in Northern Ireland (Martin Dillon and Dennis Lehane, Penguin 1973), especially chapter 12. My best estimate is that the UCA was indeed a leftish organisation at […]
[…] assassination researchers have followed this advice. For many it is practically axiomatic that complicity in the cover-up following JFK’s shooting implies complicity in, or knowledge of, the murder conspiracy. From the cover-up the trail can be followed back to the crime. But practically the entire U.S. establishment took part in the cover-up: national and […]
[PDF file]: The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed Robin Ramsay Please note: the longer documents referred to below in the footnotes are in the separate Appendices folder. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the […]
[PDF file]: Ripping yarns, penetrating tales! A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment John Preston London: Viking/Penguin, 2016, 340 pages, illustrations, index; hardback, around £12. It’s nearly forty years since the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe and several unlikely ‘associates’ were on trial at the Old Bailey for […]
[PDF file]: Appendices to The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed By Robin Ramsay Lobster 81 (Summer 2021) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Appendix 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 10 Appendix 11 Appendix 12 Appendix 13 Appendix 14 Appendix 15 Appendix 16 Appendix 17 Appendix 18 […]
[PDF file]: Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b, (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would […]
[…] these charges. However, in the words of Griffin, ‘since it was not required at this stage…. he did not have it to hand’.(6) In the document Attempted Murder (AM hereafter), discussed below, Griffin justified this lack of evidence by reference to the Constitution then in force. However, those who disagreed felt that he had […]
[…] that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that the President had enemies in the CIA and in the Mafia. (90) This does not mean that […]
[…] of a volume spewing venom in the direction of anyone who disagrees with its author. Morrow, Robert D. First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy. New York: SPI Books Shapolsky Publishers, 1992. xvii and 384 pps. Illustrated, index. I’ve never been able to take Morrow’s two previous books […]
[…] years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ […]
