[…] view is (reluctantly) confirmed by the studiedly anti-Soviet journal Survey (Autumn/Winter 1983). In a detailed run-through Soviet assassinations/covert actions etc. the only significant act they can find that took place recently and involved someone who was not a defector, is the attempt on the Pope, and the evidence on Soviet/Bulgarian involvement is thin, at best.
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]
[…] nobility, royalty. While the Knights of Columbus are associated with lodge meetings and bingo, the Knights of Malta can pick up a telephone and chat with the Pope.” A total of forty countries recognise SMOM’s sovereignty and accredit its ambassadors. (The Vatican recently upgraded its relationship with SMOM to ambassadorial level. AP 11 January […]
[…] of about one-fifth of Spain’s parliamentary deputies, as well as the capital of numerous banks, conglomerates and construction firms. Its influence has spread to the Vatican, where Pope John Paul 2 recently recognised it as a “personal prelature”; to Latin America generally, where Archbishop Lopez Trujillo, an Opus Dei ally, is now President of […]
[…] revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t […]
[…] anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. A 9mm Browning Hi-power (used by Agca) is not fired with any intent of […]
[…] Goodman was one of those in the Agency who did not believe that the KGB – or its Bulgarian allies – had run Ali Agca at the Pope. (9) Notes 1 – this ceased in October owing to the illness of its moderator, John McCartney. 2 See also, for example, Daily Telegraph, 12 […]
[…] later, the succession of high-level assassinations and engineered removals of top politicians (Willy Brandt in 1974, Gough Whitlam in 1975, Harold Wilson in 1976, Aldo Moro and Pope John Paul I in 1978, and Olof Palme in 1986, to name but the most spectacular cases) can probably only be understood if seen in the […]
[PDF file]: […] he omitted, of course, was that this AIDS nonsense was a response to the US disinformation at the beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has it that the […]
[…] he omitted, of course, was that this AIDS nonsense was a response to the US disinformation at the beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has it that the […]
