[…] that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that the President had enemies in the CIA and in the Mafia. (90) This does not mean that […]
[…] the exercise was to threaten and frighten .’ Cameron compares bullish Dibley with cocky Challenor, the most notorious policeman of the 1960s, who in 1990 bragged of murder threats he had made.(1) Dibley partly justified Century’s terror tactics by referring to a previous covert police operation, Edzell. An undercover WPC tried to seduce confessions […]
[…] of a volume spewing venom in the direction of anyone who disagrees with its author. Morrow, Robert D. First Hand Knowledge: How I Participated in the CIA-Mafia Murder of President Kennedy. New York: SPI Books Shapolsky Publishers, 1992. xvii and 384 pps. Illustrated, index. I’ve never been able to take Morrow’s two previous books […]
[…] half years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, news reports emanating from New Orleans claimed that the local district attorney, Jim Garrison, was investigating the President’s murder. Within a week Garrison was holding a press conference and claiming that he had ‘positively solved the assassination of John F. Kennedy’. On the day the […]
I invited David Turner to begin writing a regular column for Lobster. He agreed then rang to tell me his computer had been attacked by a virus and could not meet my deadline. (He is the second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written … Read more
[…] the Kennedys. Edinburgh (U.K.): Mainstream Publishing, 1993. 288 pp. Illustrated, indexes. Smith’s modest thesis is that the conspirators responsible for JFK’s assassination were also behind Marilyn Monroe’s murder (sic), Bobby’s slaying, and Ted Kennedy’s spot of bother on Chappaquiddick Island. Monroe’s death, it was hoped, would being into the open the brothers’ involvement with […]
[…] are some sections in which Turkey’s role vis-à-vis the US and NATO are considered, for the most part this is a detailed account of the Turkish state’s murder and torture of its left and Kurdish opponents. As most of this information never gets attention in the major British media, this is to be welcomed; […]
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
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … 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 […]
