[…] said that police enquiries have been frustrated by the silence of a former military officer, Colin Wallace, currently serving a ten-year sentence in Lewes, Sussex, for the murder of his mistress’s husband in 1980. Wallace told both the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Sussex police that he would be in breach of the Official […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] taken of the event. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King’s in the 1960s and worked closely with him in some of his campaigns. After King’s murder he drifted away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the […]
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 […]
At 00:20 on Sunday 31 August 1997 a black Mercedes S280 carrying four people left the Ritz Hotel in central Paris. Shortly afterwards at 00:25 it crashed into the thirteenth pillar of the Concorde-Boulogne lane of the Pont d’Alma Tunnel in central Paris. The driver – Henri Paul – was killed instantly. The front passenger … Read more
[…] to have been present with Clay Shaw and the aviator and low-grade CIA agent David Ferrie at a meeting whose main topic of conversation was how to murder the President. Why wasn’t Spiesel checked more thoroughly? What did this fiasco say about the possible quality (or lack of it) of Garrison’s other witnesses? All […]
