Search Results for: kill
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]
Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards
The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton
[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]
Case Closed: The Identification of Rudolf Hess
Reporting Trump
[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]
Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime
[PDF file]: […] offered a 500,000 USD bounty for his capture. In a bugged phone conversation that was later leaked to Ukrainian media, Kolomoisky also made a veiled threat to kill Tsaryov, couching it as a warning that Jewish business leaders had offered a million USD for Tsaryov’s assassination. Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2014 (see note […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] CIA from 1993-1995. As a quick google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first […]
LBJ: doubles and disinformation
[PDF file]: […] that this was another of Liggett’s killings, although he did not say why Liggett would wait several years (and until LBJ had quit politics and died) to kill Peck’s widow, too. The obvious implication is that Mrs Peck’s death was connected to knowledge of her late husband’s role as LBJ’s ‘body double’. At his […]
Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan
[PDF file]: […] to write what became Legend at a time when the CIA was under intense scrutiny for a series of illegal activities, most famously a CIAMafia plot to kill Fidel Castro. The political climate led to investigations by the Senate Church Committee and the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). The CIA […]