[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] government by militant left-wing groups. (p. 110) Which is what Peter Sanderson was describing in the piece I wrote in Lobster 81, ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’.11 ‘Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a […]
[PDF file]: […] He’s impressed by what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself.’ Meyer’s 1964 murder remains unsolved. 4 Michael Rainey ran a clothes shop, Hung on You, at 430 Kings Road SW10, described by music journalist Nik Cohn as ‘simultaneously the […]
[…] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.29 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]
[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]
[PDF file]: […] warmly welcoming his neighbour Starmer as Labour’s new leader – ‘my wife likes his wife’ – Coren describes Corbyn as ‘an apologist for race hate at home, murder abroad and political tyranny from Damascus to the Kremlin’. Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief by Greg Philo, Mike Berry, et al. […]
