NIck on Macintyre

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[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] essay cited in note 17. 22 Once again we owe this to the incredibly assiduous John Simkin. See 23 And this may also explain (a) Mary Meyer’s murder and (b) the intense interest of James Angleton in her diary, which he found and suppressed. 24 25 26 On Meyer’s anti-communism see . p. 124 […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] detailed account of those files at . 2 3 4 Yes, the son of Sidney. 5 See, for example, or 6 7 8 2 After the attempted murder of Alexei Navalny by the Russian state, it had an article headlined ‘Navalny poisoning: CIA, MI6, “discredited” state-funded Bellingcat play key role in accusing Russia’.9 *new* […]

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