[…] the CIA’s strong involvement with Moroccan intelligence forces – which led to their implication with Christian David and other members of Joe Attia’s gang in the 1965 murder of Moroccan opposition leader Mehdi Ben Barka. (132) In 1977, when an Angolan MPLA force with Soviet and Cuban backing invaded Zaire, Moroccan forces with French-U.S. […]
[…] — John Hunter, Sunday World, 24 April 1983. British spy link with Kincora — Phoenix, 16 September 1983, pp.12-14. Kincora link in my child’s slaying. The brutal murder that shocked war-torn Ulster — Jim Campbell and John Hunter, Sunday World, 2 October 1983, pp.1-2. Curse of Kincora — Phoenix, 11 November 1983. Kincora: spy’s […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] The Sunday Telegraph of 30 July carried a story by Christina Lamb, ‘Diplomatic Correspondent’ which claimed that Saddam Hussein had sent belly dancing assassins to London to murder his opponents there. Lamb sourced this to ‘a Foreign Office official’, the traditional euphemism for MI6. This may seem comic, frivolous even – at worst a […]
Kenn Thomas and Jim Keith Feral House, PO Box 3466, Portland, OR 97208 (), 1996, $19.95 Of all the current parapolitical ‘biggies’ floating around, the one I would not have enjoyed trying to piece together is this one; and I am grateful to Thomas and Keith for doing so. Casolaro was, on this account, a … Read more
[…] Libyans did Lockerbie. Which tells us that the disinformation prepared by the US to show Libya guilty was sufficiently convincing to persuade a professional intelligence officer. See Hollingsworth and Fielding, Defending the Realm (reviewed below), p.147. See Peter Smith’s ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32.
The Time of The Assassins: The Inside Story of the Plot to Kill the Pope Claire Sterling, Angus and Robertson, London 1984 The Plot to Kill the Pope Paul B. Henze, Croom Helm, London 1984 These two books cover the same ground, more or less, and have the same thesis: the KGB used the Bulgarians, … Read more
[…] of MI6 in the assassination of Princess Diana? That famous lefty rag, The Daily Express. Looking at Terry Hanstock’s account of the recent developments in the Di murder mystery below, I am almost persuaded that I should be taking this seriously. At any rate, I am wondering why I don’t….. Contributors to this issue […]
[…] is the only documentary that includes footage of Oswald being driven into the Dallas PD headquarters after his arrest. The Oswald-Ruby Slaying. Three versions of the Oswald murder appear to have been filmed. These are: KRLD-TV, Dallas: b&w video. KRLD-TV, Dallas: 16min b&w. Cameraman: George Phenix. WBAP-TV, Fort Worth: 16min b&w Cameraman: J. Jamison. […]
[…] David Kelly was a ‘Walter Mitty character’ must have made Colin Wallace smile. For this is how the MOD briefed journalists about Wallace during his trial for murder in 1981. Corinne Souza pointed out to me that the only people using the Walter Mitty expression these days are spin-doctors. Notes 1 < http://www.nato.int/docu/review/2003/issue2/english/art4.htmlxt issue […]
