[…] 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 […]
[…] activist. He presents a selection of the known and reliable evidence to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal […]
[…] in Mexico, democracy works like this: vote for the PRI or PAN and have some waterproof cardboard to roof your shack; vote for the PRD and we’ll kill you. Higher up the social scale there is more money, and a greater variety of forms of cooption. But the neo-liberal system reserves the right to […]
[…] there was no conspiracy, and those bullet holes in the doorway weren’t bullet holes after all. I wish I could believe him. PEPPER, William F. Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995. xxxi + 537 pps. Illustrated, notes, index. A highly detailed and […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the … Read more
[…] 1963; Jack Zangretti, a minor mob figure who managed a gambling resort and hotel in Oklahoma, told friends while Oswald was in custody that Jack Ruby will kill him within twenty-four hours and someone close to Frank Sinatra would be kidnapped to take attention away from the assassination. Both events happened, and Zangretti was […]
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted … Read more
In February this year, unnoticed by the press, a funeral took place in a quiet Sussex village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, … Read more
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more
