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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 19) May 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 19 The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II Jeffrey M. Bale Introduction Like most dramatic and unsettling political events, the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca temporarily captured the imagination of the world's media and political pundits. Although the initial public outrage and concern generally faded once it became clear that the Pope would survive, certain individuals and groups have pursued the issue for a much longer period, usually for political reasons. As a result, a considerable literature about the crime has already appeared, most of which has focussed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 306 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-11.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 4) April 1984 Last| Contents| Next Issue 4 Who Owns Agca? The Time of The Assassins: The Inside Story of the Plot to Kill the Pope Claire Sterling, Angus and Robertson, London 1984 The Plot to Kill the Pope Paul B. Henze, Croom Helm, London 1984 These two books cover the same ground, more or less, and have the same thesis: the KGB used the Bulgarians, who used Agca to shoot the Pope. Sterling's is much the more impressive of them, better documented, more detailed and just generally more convincing. Henze's is thin, padded out with barely relevant material (80 pages ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 241 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last| Contents| Next Issue 41 A man with Friends The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB's plot to kill the Pope Nigel West HarperCollins, London, 2000, £19.99 Let's dispose of the 'Third Secret' nonsense. West claims that Pope John- the Polish Pope- was told the 'third secret' of the Fatima revelations; and that this 'third secret' spoke of his assassination and suggested an anti-communist crusade. West reproduces the text of this on p.5- it was first released onto the Vatican's Web site!- and there is nothing in there which refers to the Pope, or his ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 145 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-39c.htm
... www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 1) September 1983 Last| Contents| Next Issue 1 17. Vatican Connections Curious report in IHT (14th April 1983) that an Italian radical mag., Peace and War, had received photocopies of telegrams indicating that the US Ambassador to Italy had worked out a plan to link the Bulgarians to the shooting of the Pope. The US embassy says they're fakes. It certainly sounds implausible that anything so sensitive would be transmitted by telegram. But then Reagan has appointed a lot of dummies as ambassadors. See the list- and comments- in IHT 31st March 1983. 18. William Pfaff in IHT (14th April 1983) gives an account of what ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 112 - 01 Sep 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue01/lob01-17.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Michael Ledeen again Tom Easton As the election for the new Pope began a fascinating US radio interview with a former senior CIA official was broadcast in which the name Michael Ledeen (See Lobsters 31, 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to the war on Iraq. By coincidence Ledeen was much involved on the first occasion the late Pope came to wide public attention in May 1981. Soon after the election of US President Ronald Reagan an attempt was made to assassinate John Paul II in St ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 80 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-08.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 How many divisions does the Pope have? The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina Uki Goni London: Granta Books, 2002, £20 Simon Matthews If there was a category of work called Detective History, Uki Goni really ought to be awarded Book of the Year. Undeterred by the shredding and incineration of key documents, rebuffs from the supporters of Peron and Menem and general heaviness (Goni currently lives in Dublin some distance from his native Argentina), thanks to his endeavours we now have evidence of the scale of the post-1945 fascist diaspora. In ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 79 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-28.htm
... , and in particular a clique of disinformation agents starring the 'Big Three'- Claire Sterling, Paul Henze and Michael Ledeen. Not only did these three have access to the most widely viewed TV slots and the most influential papers, they could also insist that no opposition views were aired alongside their own. Countless millions were fed 'KGB shoots Pope', while the acquittal of the Bulgarians last March was lucky to hit the back pages. The real plot against the Pope- by Ali Agca and his Grey Wolves comrades- is clearly visible within the context of their politics. Likewise their motives. For the last 50 years Turkish fascism has laid claim to vast portions of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 58 - 01 Apr 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue13/lob13-10.htm
... simply trying to report what's going on.' Hate to tell you this, Frank, but as the BBC's erstwhile Security Correspondent, and all that implies by way of confidential briefings by the British spooks, I'm not sure you would be my idea of a 'non-partisan reporter', either. Papa! Kevin Koogan e-mailed me about the new Pope, Ratzinger, quoting the New York Times to the effect that Ratzinger had been brought to the Vatican Council at the age of 35 by Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne. In Koogan's book Dreamer of the Day (NY: Autonomedia, 1999), which was reviewed in Lobster 39, he shows on p. 403 that in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-24.htm
... (London 1984) has the virtue of keeping our gaze firmly on Gelli, Marcinkus et al, but relying as it does on confidential sources, it remains interesting- plausible, even- but nothing more. And for the book's central thesis, that Calvi and/or Gelli and/or Marcinkus and/or A N Other murdered Pope John Paul I there is not a shred of evidence. (There isn't even any evidence that the Pope was murdered at all.) Yallop actually has written a book exploring the 'cui bono?' question (a) without establishing that there was a crime, and (b) without noticing that, even if there were, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-07.htm
... John McCarthy to lure his sister to Ireland, claiming she was being hunted by the FBI, CIA, Scotland Yard and the Irish Special Branch. Thomas also referred to 'high level' sources in Washington when he told McCarthy that Gerrit was a member of the CIA, and, hinting that the Vatican was involved, mentioned that the present Pope was "the most political of all Popes". Magill doesn't make it clear whether Thomas actually got his grubby paws on any 'relevant' material, though it does state that McCarthy's papers were tampered with the night she spent at Thomas' house in Ashford (22 March 1983), and that although the file she brought to Ireland ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-02.htm
