lob86South of the Border

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[…] his private jet. See . 7 8 See . 9 See, for instance, . 10 Tony Geraghty, The Irish War (London: HarperCollins, 2000) p. 230. ‘Loughlin Maginn murder sparked events that led to collusion probe’, The Irish News, 17 September, 2022 at or . 11 3 There are potentially close to 100 similar cases12 […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Blair and Prince Charles. Working for the BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish […]

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? […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[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 […]

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. […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: German links to the Hammarskjöld case Making the case for another possible murder weapon Torben Gülstorff On 18 September 1961, at approximately 00:13, a Douglas DC-6 came down close to the North Rhodesian town of Ndola. Sixteen passengers and crew on board died, among them the United Nations (UN) General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld. The […]

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