[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
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
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that since his death he has been reported to have been writing books on the Hilda Murrell murder (private correspondence), autoerotic techniques (Independent , 18 February), the Lusitania (Independent , 18 February) and the production of chemical weapons at Nancekuke in Cornwall (The West […]
The drip feed of information on the attempted assassination of President Nasser continues. In a recent episode of the Channel 4 TV series ‘The End of Empire’, Sir Anthony Nutting, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office, who later resigned over Suez, recalled that he had been “horrified” to receive a telephone call from … Read more
