Mind control update Writing about something you don’t really understand, it’s easy to make bad early decisions. It’s like being self-taught on an instrument and acquiring bad habits. In this case I began by naming this subject ‘ELF’, extremely low frequency, which was about all I picked up from my initial reading of the torrent … Read more
[…] its entirety … (they) present recent Soviet missile deployments in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR as legitimately defensive ” etc. A large (two page) piece on the murder of Hilda Murrell (the anti-nuclear campaigner) in New Statesman (9 November 1984), laying out all the oddities in the case. Tam Dalyell’s repeated claims that this […]
The attack on the USS Liberty The short piece in Lobster 45 on the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was curiously timely. Soon after it appeared Captain Ward Boston, senior legal counsel for the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the incident broke his silence and stated, inter alia: ‘There is no question in … Read more
[…] came into its own. Opperskalski’s article goes into depth, naming names on all sides, promising much for his forthcoming book on the subject with Kunhanandan Nair, CIA: Murder Club. But the real gem in this issue of Geheim is the publication of lengthy extracts from two internal Verfassungsschutz (MI5) documents, detailing which categories of […]
[…] Reilly and T. E. Lawrence through to Fitzroy Maclean and Orde Wingate, Churchill enjoyed the company of such men, listening to their stories of secret operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the security of […]
[…] and The Lost Crusader touch on issues that return with each morning’s newspaper: is a foreign secret intelligence service bound by international conventions governing such matters as murder, illegal imprisonment and the overthrow of governments? Is the word of the Director of Central Intelligence to be believed? Is it proper for a foreign intelligence […]
[…] officials of the South, who were forever building schools and dispensaries, “nigger lovers”. ‘In this topsy turvy world of secret intelligence reports, MI5, pimps, prostitutes, rape and murder, presided over by the Colonial Office and Harold Macmillan, it was not surprising that the Nigerian political leader of great personal integrity and honesty — Awolowo […]
[…] it seems an employee of Collins Radio, who had a security clearance, was parked in the car park where Oswald allegedly dropped a jacket shortly after the murder of Officer Tippit. (This is in a volume of the House Select Committee on Assassinations but I don’t have the reference at hand. If someone can […]
[…] to the jury do appear to follow a tradition of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could […]
[…] Lebanese contacts to the Interior Ministry’s DST, kept silent about Mazurier’s role and about their direct contacts with Abdallah lieutenant Jacqueline Esber. (Esber is suspected of the murder of Yacov Basimantov, 2nd Secretary for political affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Paris, in April 1982). The DGSE also withheld information confirming Abdallah’s key role […]
