[PDF file]: […] rest of the former Mrs Liggett’s claims, although it may cast some doubt on her reliability in general.2 In 1974 John Liggett was convicted of the attempted murder of Mrs Dorothy Peck, whom he had bludgeoned with a hammer before – apparently assuming Mrs Peck was dead – attempting to destroy the crime scene […]
[PDF file]: […] as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, shot dead outside the door of his Brussels flat on March 22, 1990, has been variously attributed to […]
[PDF file]: Stan Bonnett and the Price of Admiralty Murder in Cairo,1 the book about the life and death of David Holden, chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times, got me thinking about one of Holden’s Fleet Street contemporaries, Stanley Bonnett. In 1960, in the twilight of the colonial empires, both Holden and Bonnett worked in […]
[PDF file]: […] tours as soldiers or as television viewers. This was the daily violence on an unimaginable scale guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended […]
[PDF file]: […] which there has been no shortage. It’s easy to see why. Files is a genuine gangster and a would-be killer (his 30-year sentence was for an attempted murder committed in 1991), and he presents a simple story that circumvents the bewildering forest of forensic, ballistic and eyewitness evidence relating to the case. An entirely […]
[…] beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. Briefly There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.44 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]
[PDF file]: […] as such in Leese’s 1936 publication, Our Jewish Aristocracy: A Tale of Contamination. He was a persistent advocate of the Jewish ‘blood libel’ of Jewish ritual child murder, pushing this particular antiSemitic slander as late as 1953. (p. 44) He became disillusioned with the Nazi regime at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, a […]
[PDF file]: […] somewhat, being chatty, full of slang and written in ‘Americanised’ English. It also includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so […]
[…] beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. Briefly There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.27 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]
[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]
