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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of one man, then that was no big deal. In war, thousands upon thousands of innocent people go to the wall … Nobody wanted to frustrate Stalker’s murder investigation. Murder is murder. Mitigating circumstances for killing have to be justified in court. We’re all on the same side on that subject. But what Stalker […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the role of Johnson as the incoming President, I was wondering what you thought of the recent news of Billy Sol Estes’ remarks that LBJ ordered the murder of Henry Marshall.(6) This, added to the picture painted in Robert Caro’s recent biography of Johnson’s early years, suggests that LBJ was certainly capable of Kennedy’s […]
A great flood of books about Italian politics recently, and almost none of them willing to answer the question “Why Italy?” Why is Italy’s political culture so firmly based on conspiracy and secrecy? A part of that answer must be Italy’s role as the premier European site of the conflict between indigenous left-wing forces and … Read more
[…] reported in Lobster 4, efforts were being made by Lord Avebury (Eric Lubbock) and the Duke of Norfolk to clear Wallace of the ‘It’s A Knock Out’ murder. Mrs Anne Wallace met her husband Colin whilst she was assistant in Conmower intelligence office of MI6 in Belfast. She is now personal secretary to the […]
