[…] interest in any particular subject. For more seasoned campaigners however, the book has less to offer. In many of the topics, such as those covering the Calvi murder, the plots against Harold Wilson, the CIA drugs connection etc, anyone who has been following the topics will feel that some of the more obvious and […]
[…] a bitter tug-of-war between those who believe that methods of intelligence-gathering should be protected at all costs and those who regard the tape as possible evidence of murder committed by police, and therefore belonged in a wider arena.’ (16) Head of RUC Special Branch, Trevor Forbes, told Stalker, ‘You will never be able to […]
[…] to refer to informants or sources and not “agents” as it is sometimes colloquially understood to be, “MI6 spies”. Thus the reference to “agents being involved in murder” was a reference to actions of informants rather than the authorities.’ Paget concludes with the cosmically irrelevant observation that: ‘These Inquiries relate specifically to activity in […]
‘Modernism is political’. Okay, it’s not the snappiest start to an article I know, but it gets to the bottom of the phenomenon that is LM, formerly Living Marxism, currently Last Magazine. Confused? Yes they are, but not as confused as the liberal intelligentsia who have been trying to decode what LM means for the … Read more
[…] to RFK). Reviewing Seymour Hersh’s The Dark Side of Camelot, he comments on p. 125: ‘Hersh does not take his book where it is logically headed…… the murder in Dallas, and what looks to be a mob killing. Too many lunatics have already checked in on that subject; and Hersh is wise to leave […]
[…] he can do a lot of damage.’ (47) This last statement is particuarly evocative. In 1984 a violent neo-Nazi group called The Order — responsible for the murder of talk show host Alan Berg — established contact with two government scientists engaged in clandestine research to project chemical imbalances and render targeted individuals docile […]
Daniele Ganser London: Frank Cass, 2005, £22.99, p/b Country by country the author has assembled what has been made public about the Gladio network since it was revealed in 1990. There are even 3 pages on the Gladio network in Luxembourg. Much of this is appearing in English for the first time and it … Read more
[…] a mental asylum. (Bolden and the Chicago incident are discussed at length in Vincent Palamara’s The Third Alternative – Survivor’s Guilt: the Secret Service and the JFK Murder. See Lobster 27 pp 26 and 31 for how to obtain this. Palamara’s work, though badly organised, deserves a much wider audience.) The second JFK piece […]
[…] dead but stinking.) Such definitions of “terrorism” that are attempted merely produce problems. The version offered by the editor (p9) is: “terrorism is the deliberate and systematic murder maiming and menacing of the innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th […]
[…] there is a real possibility that the Court of Appeal would not uphold the conviction. The book illustrates how wrongfully convicted prisoners who are ‘in denial of murder’ can end up serving many years over their tariff and more than if they had been guilty. Stephen Downing, who served 28 years before being […]
