[…] our understanding of the Holocaust is brought home in Gerhard Steinberg’s opening essay. Here he argues that the history of the early days of the Nazi mass murder of Russian Jews has been transformed by intelligence materials revealing the extent of Order Police involvement in the massacres that accompanied Operation Barbarossa. Whereas it had […]
[…] be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist campaign was a great help to the British, Davies goes further. He argues that the murder gangs were actually being directed by British intelligence; in effect, the British were carrying out a campaign of assassination by proxy. Nelson, a member of the […]
[…] 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had been responsible for the murder.’ The fact that he expected a straight answer shows how distraught he was.(4) One point worth considering here is why it is that the United States […]
Murder in Cairo Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery Peter Gillman and Emanuele Midolo with Leni Gillman London: Biteback Publishing, 2025, h/b, £20 Andrew Rosthorn This book is not to be missed. It has taken 48 years and two generations of Sunday Times reporters to get quite close to finding out who ordered […]
[PDF file]: The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed Robin Ramsay Please note: the longer documents referred to below in the footnotes are in the separate Appendices folder. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the […]
[PDF file]: Ripping yarns, penetrating tales! A Very English Scandal Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment John Preston London: Viking/Penguin, 2016, 340 pages, illustrations, index; hardback, around £12. It’s nearly forty years since the Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe and several unlikely ‘associates’ were on trial at the Old Bailey for […]
[PDF file]: Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy Mark North New York: Skyhorse, 2011; 300 pages, notes, h/b, (US) $24.95 T his book is 300 pages long but the text is 159 pages; the rest is mostly reproductions of documents (as if the author thinks the reader would […]
[PDF file]: Appendices to The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed By Robin Ramsay Lobster 81 (Summer 2021) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Appendix 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 10 Appendix 11 Appendix 12 Appendix 13 Appendix 14 Appendix 15 Appendix 16 Appendix 17 Appendix 18 […]
[…] as ‘environmentalist and peace campaigner’). Following a ‘cold case review’ by West Mercia Constabulary in 2002, a Shrewsbury labourer, Andrew George, was charged with her kidnap and murder in June 2003. In February 2004 two more men were arrested in connection with the case, only to be released the following day, ‘pending further inquiries’. […]
[…] the upsurge of political violence in Italy, starting with the (fascist imputed) Milan bank bombing in 1969, and two key traumatic episodes — the capture and ultimate murder of Christian Democrat (DC) party leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades (BR) in 1978, and the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980 when 85 died, […]
