[…] and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted kidnaps and several undercover surveillance missions. One of these operations, in March 1974, is the beginning of the Stalker saga – an attempt by […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
[…] a unique take on the ‘whodunnit’ aspect of the assassination, a synthesis of the left and right wing conspiracy theories: Oswald was involved in the conspiracy to murder the President; and he was an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] member of the coterie now gathered around the bloody foreign policies of America’s resurgent right-wing. All of them, like Crozier, are apologists, directly or indirectly, for mass murder in the name of “freedom” and “democracy” in places like Chile, El Salvador and Guatemala. It is, of course, possible that Crozier is a wonderful chap, […]
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the lay … Read more
[…] Mail and Daily Mirror – including the ‘Walter Mitty’ theme). The ‘line’ has been changed. At Wallace’s trial, in the effort to get him convicted of the murder of Jonathan Lewis via a ‘karate blow’ to the base of his nose, Wallace was portrayed as a dangerous killer/macho man. I believe that in 1987 […]
[…] only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: Gehlen, Roswell, Operation Paperclip, the murder of Gandhi; and Watergate, Littlejohn, Kincora, Allende; and AIDS conspiracy, Iran-Contra conspiracy, Hilda Murrel, Get Scargill, assassination of Mrs Ghandi. And so on. I haven’t read […]
British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more
