[…] 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 […]
[…] 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’ […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] influence. Throughout October and November 1942 talks between various emissaries were held on how best to move this forward. News of this reached Stalin who ordered the murder of von Papen, delegating this to a team of Bulgarian assassins, who blew themselves up in the process, leaving von Papen unharmed. In the meantime British […]
The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to … Read more
[…] Onassis henchmen, the two soon hit it off. Hamsharmi got his kickback and more on the understanding that he do Onassis a little favour: arrange the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. Hamshari got access to Onassis’ mob contacts () and was even put in touch with LA hypnotist and purported MKULTRA veteran, William […]
‘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
[…] 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 […]
[…] that Litvinenko contaminated himself, probably through involvement in an illegal nuclear smuggling operation (polonium 210 being an improbable – expensive, unreliable and dangerous – choice as a murder weapon). Epstein is suspicious of the British authorities’ actions and contrasts them with those of their Russian equivalents who opened their files to him.(13) In the […]
[…] up a pseudo-gang to terrorise Catholics. He had also infiltrated the UDA in 1972 to 1973. None of the others in the gang were ever charged with murder, but Baker was jailed after pleading guilty. He was secretly visited in his cell by Lord Windlesham, then Minister of State at Stormont. He was later […]
