The View from the Bridge

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[…] must be a decent chance that those Dallas Police arrest records were released precisely to discredit Holt.) There is a necessary caveat there. Two American soldiers, Colonel Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified CIA officer Edward Lansdale as being in one of the shots of the ‘tramps’, passing them, going in the opposite […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] given concerning the death of Rudolf Hess.’ 5 The forensic pathologist Dr Iain West, who had conducted notable postmortems on Robert Maxwell, Jill Dando and PC Yvonne Fletcher, later warned Hugh Thomas that the British government were unlikely to release the results of any DNA comparison between the tissue from Berlin and the blood […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] 252. 21 Times 27 April 1954 and 6 April 1957. 22 Kevin Coogan in Anarchy no. 38. Hulton fronted for the S.O.E. news agency, Britanova. See Richard Fletcher in Tribune September 9, 1983. 23 24 Times 27 April 1954 6 The group eventually split into two ‘Common Causes’, the new one being Common Cause […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cold War world which have shaped the visible, formal American politics and shows continuity of methods and some personnel. But this isn’t some ‘secret team’, to use Fletcher Prouty’s term. (And a sense that the concept of parapolitics encouraged ‘secret team’ notions is one of the reasons Scott abandoned it.) There are lots of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in Dallas on the day of JFK’s assassination, a figure passes ‘the tramps’. He was identified as being the CIA’s Edward Lansdale by General Victor Krulak, L. Fletcher Prouty and Lansdale’s second wife. Robert Morrow has noted that Lansdale has been recognised in the photograph by his current biographer, Gregory C. Lavin.24 Morrow quotes […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] air defences were believed to be incapable of it: viz. defector Oswald obviously gave information which enabled them to do it.59 The late Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty claimed that the Gary Powers-piloted U-2 which was apparently shot down by Soviet air defences was sabotaged, to damage President Eisenhower’s attempt to cool the […]

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[…] in Dallas on the day of JFK’s assassination, a figure passes ‘the tramps’. He was identified as being the CIA’s Edward Lansdale by General Victor Krulak, L. Fletcher Prouty and Lansdale’s second wife. Robert Morrow has noted that Lansdale has been recognised in the photograph by his current biographer, Gregory C. Lavin.3 Morrow quotes […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of this off.47 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ JFK conspiracy theory: Leroy Fletcher Prouty. But he omits the fact the Prouty had been a Colonel in the USAF and liaison with the CIA and knew first-hand whereof he spoke.48 […]

Megrahi – You Are My Jury: The Lockerbie Evidence by John Ashton

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt to murder […]

View from the bridge

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[…] of this off.30 One curiosity: he writes: Another inspiration for Stone’s film was another well-known popularizer of the ‘invisible government’ or ‘deep state’ JFK conspiracy theory: Leroy Fletcher Prouty. But he omits the fact the Prouty had been a Colonel in the USAF and liaison with the CIA.31 File under ‘All our yesterdays’. Asil […]

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