The view from the bridge

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[…] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] expert to see the fallacy of the singlebullet theory.’ A more recent essay by Denton, ‘Joan Mellen did not debunk the idea of LBJ’s complicity in the murder of JFK’ does what its title suggests it will and includes this: ‘Gordon Ferrie 48 spoke of the conspiracy against Kennedy as a “nexus”, a series […]

Also noticed

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[…] Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which a Coulter® blood count was performed on December 15th, 1982.’ 7 In 1982 particles in blood could be counted and sized on American- Hugh Thomas, The Murder of Rudolf Hess, (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1979) and Hess: A Tale of Two Murders (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1988). 6 7 See footnote 3. designed […]

The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong

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[…] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]

Mac Wallace and the finger of guilt

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[PDF file]: […] and shortly thereafter a minor slew of books about the evidence that incriminates Wallace and thereby implicates Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon Johnson, as the main motivator behind the murder. This has now been superseded by a period in which critics have attempted to dismiss this evidence. There are two prominent and respected critics who object […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

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[PDF file]: […] a total sale of over two million. As Leonard observes, the fact is ‘that there was a sizeable audience in the US for a song extolling mass murder’. (pp. 224-225) Presumably this did not perturb the FBI in the slightest. John Newsinger is a retired academic. His latest book is Chosen by God: Donald […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]

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