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? […]

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. […]

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 […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] out significant details you will read here.7 Shenon on NPR: Philip Shenon and Larry J. Sabato, ‘How the CIA Came to Doubt the Official Story of JFK’s Murder’ or . 5 HAVANA AP – by Daniel Harker: ‘Castro Blasts Raids on Cuba – Says U.S. Leaders Imperilled by Aid to Rebels’, 9 September 1963. […]

Reporting Trump

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of hatred being whipped up that he ‘feared the day would come when the the president’s rhetoric would lead one of his supporters to harm or even murder a journalist’. (p. 2) The Enemy of the People, though, is a chronicle of his reporting of the Trump Presidency, of how ‘America has changed right […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] But he was also a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, resigning in 1975 with the rank of Captain. Wallace ‘had been dealing with a Protestant murder group and paedophile operation out of the Kincora Boys’ Home’. (p. 30). There was no ‘murder group’ at Kincora I have ever heard of and Bloom […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] other, but stayed together for the children’s sake, and that’s probably why I got interested in all this under-the-counter stuff.” Finding personal catharsis by investigating the Kennedy murder, the final link in Lobster’s evolutionary chain was forged in 1982 when Ramsay met fellow Kennedy assassination enthusiast Stephen Dorrell and they decided to start publishing […]

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