[…] (they) present recent Soviet missile deployments in Poland, Czechoslovakia and the GDR as legitimately defensive ” etc. A large (two page) piece on the murder of Hilda Murrell (the anti-nuclear campaigner) in New Statesman (9 November 1984), laying out all the oddities in the case. Tam Dalyell’s repeated claims that this was a British […]
[…] is a series of chapters in which Aaronovitch gives us his opinions of some high profile conspiracy theories: the aforementioned, plus 9/11, Princess Diana, David Kelly, Hilda Murrell, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, etc., in all of which the conspiracy theorists get it wrong in his opinion. As it happens I agree […]
[…] unions.(10) In particular, I make the point that Troy Kennedy-Martin wrote Edge of Darkness after Rob Green started investigating the murder of his aunt, anti-nuclear activist Hilda Murrell, (11) who had incurred the unwelcome attention of Zeus Security and Sapphire Investigations (both subcontractors of MI5 and the nuclear police employing right-wing extremists and violent […]
[…] as agent provocateurs on picket lines and as a hit squad when required. He weaves in several fascinating strands from that period, including the murders of Hilda Murrell and WPC Fletcher. More importantly, there is a suggestion of a genesis in British Army-supported paramilitary activity in the north of Ireland in the 1970s. There […]
Richard M Bennett London: Virgin Books, 2003 £20 hardback This is 350 pages of summaries of political and historical conspiracies. It starts in 2330 BC but the first 2007 years take up only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: … Read more
[…] signs of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that since his death he has been reported to have been writing books on the Hilda Murrell murder (private correspondence), autoerotic techniques (Independent , 18 February), the Lusitania (Independent , 18 February) and the production of chemical weapons at Nancekuke in Cornwall (The […]
[…] Enemies of the State, a book much edited by solicitors, one imagines. Murray, enigmatic at the best of times, is nevertheless a valuable commentator on the Hilda Murrell killing. Dorril deals with the case, with sensibleness oozing from every serif, in his chapter ‘Mysterious Deaths, Deniable Operations and Private Spooks’, which begins: ‘Do the […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the … Read more
[PDF file]: […] you are using Safari which sometimes doesn’t ‘read’ it. Try another browser, eg Chrome. 3 Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met […]
[…] declined to do so but compromised and joined the Legion of Frontiersmen, a part-time military Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met […]
