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The view from the bridge
[…] 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? […]
German links to the Hammarskjöld case
[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 […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] Men The pamphlet by Peter Oborne and Francis Weaver, Guilty Men,11 is a 10 11 Downloadable at . 4 Wallace, accusing him of being an accessory to murder, which Wilkinson claimed came from one of his department’s researchers on the Wallace affair. Of course his department had no researchers working on Wallace and the […]
Also noticed
[…] 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
[…] 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 […]