[…] and mode of analysis. But parapolitics as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional to describe the deeper irrational movements which culminated collectively in the murder of the President: it describes at best only an intervening layer of the irrationality under our political culture’s rational surface. ‘Thus I now refer to parapolitics […]
Suffer the innocents? The Stevens inquiry into Britain’s state assassination policy in Northern Ireland in the 1980s began in September 1989. The police officers who signed up for it didn’t think it would take long to do. ‘We thought it was going to be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there … Read more
[…] Matta himself remained untouchable until 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the […]
[…] name the ‘man closely linked to intelligence circles’? The late G.K. Young is unlikely to object. Why not name Duncan Campbell, the person MI5 asked him to murder? Why recount the fascist activities and intelligence connections of ‘Lutz’ and ‘the Major’ without telling us that they are Column 88 leader Les Vaughan and Ian […]
[…] the Christian population and other groups are airbrushed. In addition, it has excelled at ‘bouncing responsibility’: For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned […]
[…] was interviewed on the Alec Jones radio programme (3) where he stated: ‘David was murdered on the 17th. On Saturday the 19th, within 48 hours of the murder, I was contacted by a British intelligence officer who told me he’d been murdered. That didn’t take me by surprise, I was suspicious of the suicide […]
[…] is scanty, is essential. Instead of documentation we get stuff like this (taken from p69 after opening the book at random). The emphases are mine. Discussing the murder of one Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary […]
[…] Palme (10)Was Palme the victim of a destabilisation attempt in the mid-70’s like fellow Socialist Willi Brandt? Is there a connection to the most plausible of Paline murder theories – action by a right-wing faction within the Swedish intelligence service, SAPO? In 1973 three journalists alleged the existence of such a group with the […]
The big switch Keeping track of the developments in the JFK assassination is something like a full-time job and I don’t have the time. Plodding along years behind the buffs, I came across Walt Brown’s Treachery in Dallas (Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995), an interesting book, dotted with new (to me) bits and pieces. … Read more
“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more
