[…] by the police, and that he was framed for the killing. In September 1991, Malcolm Kennedy was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment for Quinn’s murder, despite evidence that crucial police logs had gone missing, and conflicting accounts from police officers of events on the night. A Police Complaints Authority investigation in […]
[…] In poring over all the dissimulation over weapons of mass destruction, the death of scientist David Kelly and, most recently, who knew what over the torture and murder of Iraqi civilians, it may be useful to bear one fragment of US history in mind. Paul Lindley, the former US Congressman, wrote in his They […]
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
[…] was arrested in April for his alleged part in a conspiracy to assassinate the ANC leader Chris Harni (Independent, 19 April, 1993) and later convicted of the murder. The Guardian (21 April) reported that Derby-Lewis ran an organisation called The Stallard Foundation, which affiliated to Western Goals. Stallard rang a bell with me and […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
[…] on 30 October 1993. Kalugin was arrested at the airport and interrogated for hours on suspicion he may have been involved in the 1979 Georgi Markov ‘umbrella murder’ in London. Although released without charge, the resulting bad publicity destroyed Kalugin’s credibility, and my lawyers decided not to call him. Kalugin’s evidence would have been […]
[PDF file]: […] publisher on the eve of its appearance. I am grateful to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised […]
[PDF file]: […] as a copycat crime, carried out by unconnected criminals. It took nearly four months for the LAPD to arrest and indict Manson and co. for the two murder sprees. O’Neill sets out to prove that the powers-that-be of the LAPD knew early on that Manson and the Family were the murderers; which leads to […]
[…] He eventually died in 2020 from renal failure. 34 Biletsky had been released from prison the previous month, having been convicted in 2013 of involvement in a murder committed in 2011. His premature release was the result of a national amnesty for political prisoners. 35 14 ‘sounds somewhat absurd’, and remarked dismissively that ‘love […]
[PDF file]: […] He eventually died in 2020 from renal failure. 34 Biletsky had been released from prison the previous month, having been convicted in 2013 of involvement in a murder committed in 2011. His premature release was the result of a national amnesty for political prisoners. 35 14 shooting but has said it ‘sounds somewhat absurd’, […]
