[…] see Colin Wallace and re-examines the attempt to frame him for bank robbery. A very good summary of both the Wallace material and the South African ( BOSS) connections to the plots in the 1970s. Hain, who unfortunately failed to unseat the dreadful David Mellor in Putney at the General Election, made some forthright […]
[…] House memorandum which suggested the settlement and compensation for Olsen’s widow, was written by the then Deputy White House Chief of Staff, Dick Cheney, to his then boss, Donald Rumsfeld. The memo recommended an official apology by the president so as to forestall any trial or official hearing on the Olson case. Otherwise, the […]
[…] Cuban President Fidel Castro, his brother Raul Castro, Che Guevera and five other revolutionary Cuban government leaders. Former associates of Cuban dictator Batista and of Resorts International boss Santo Trafficante were, according to this early 1960 Nixon-Trafficante agreement, to be selected out of the Operation 40 participants by Santo Trafficante – and then secretly […]
[…] of resignation, ‘When are we going to have the courage and political maturity to tell the Mexican people that we suffer from a sort of narco-democracy?’ His boss, DIEGO VALADES, Salinas’ fourth Attorney General, quits a few days later. 18 May At his first news conference since replacing the murdered Posadas Ocampo of Guadalajara […]
[…] Within a year, he was forced to resign his first premiership when it emerged that he was being investigated for corruption himself. Craxi had been the political boss in Milan, Berlusconi’s home city, and the place where he made his first fortune in two housing deals. He had achieved this through two means. First […]
[…] Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House of Lords boss, George Jellicoe, with insinuations that could but not remind him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in […]
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
[…] big lie. In a statement to the Civil Service Appeals Board in 1976, when Wallace was appealing against his dismissal from the Army (appealing successfully), his former boss, Peter Broderick, Head of Army Information Services, said of Wallace: “He had constant and free access to information of high classification and extreme sensitivity.” Ware is […]
[…] made by Estes and who confirm, in general terms, that they contain what Estes says they do.(5) Marcello’s ‘confession’ Elsewhere we learn of a ‘confession’ by Mafia boss, the late Carlos Marcello, that he had Kennedy killed. According to reports of the new book by Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, declassified […]
[…] of these events are described in great detail by Gerald James. This is an important book, perhaps a very important book, and it is fascinating. James, as boss of Astra, was one of the minor players in the arms game in the 1980s who got screwed by the bigger players and the covert arms […]
