Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more
[…] began running interference for MI5 at the Wapping gulag. I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken […]
[…] first discussed the same deals (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/87, from Washington Post Wire). Shortly before his death in July 1986 – which many believe to have been murder (Executive Intelligence Review, August 1, 1986, p. 47; Los Angeles Times, June 12/13, 1987) – Hashemi also offered to help the government gain release of the […]
[…] used its techniques against the radical left, take heart! The Evening Standard Diary 13 June 2001 reported that the diaries of Private Lee Clegg, convicted for the murder of two joy riders in Northern Ireland, and a minor cause célèbre for the right and the British Army, disappeared in the mail despite being sent […]
[…] read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new perspective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their names may be familiar: Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson. The question revealed for us all […]
[…] By Rachel Zoll Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP) – A white serial killer who traveled the country targeting blacks, Jews and interracial couples pleaded guilty today to the 1978 murder of a black man in Chattanooga. Joseph Paul Franklin, 47, now has been convicted of killing seven people and is suspected in ten other murders. He […]
[…] Misc Pat Finucane Centre www.serve.com/pfc/index.html Pat Finucane, a human rights lawyer in N. Ireland, was murdered in 1989 by the UDA ‘One of those involved with his murder, Brian Nelson, was working for the Force Research Unit, an undercover unit of British Military Intelligence.’ Includes info on the Finucane case; the FRU and their […]
[…] never published in the US, though copies were placed with Ramparts, W.W.Turner (22) and the Garrison inquiry. Of the Kennedy assassination de Gaulle said in 1964: “Kennedy’s murder will involve all sorts of consequences. Blood calls for blood. America is becoming less and less a stable country, one that can be relied on. It […]
[…] second we must retain a sense of proportion. It condemned Scotland Yard for using alarmist language (‘even if true’ ) that the plot would have caused ‘mass murder on an unimaginable scale’. It is the job of journalists and terrorists to engage in hyperbole (it said), not the police. This pragmatic response will not […]
[…] use green ink myself, and I’m fairly sceptical about most of the areas I’ve just mentioned although I never did understand what was so loonish about the murder of Hilda Murrell. Having said that, I don’t believe it’s possible to draw a firm line between conspiracy theory and parapolitics. According to the ‘Louie, Louie’ […]
