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The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs
[PDF file]: […] dropped. Millions dead and often permanent environmental damage was done to health and livelihoods as ‘19 million gallons of toxic herbicides’, and indiscriminate use of napalm and Agent Orange were unleashed on Vietnam. The infamous Phoenix Program of assassination and terror with an estimated 70,000 Vietnamese deaths replete with sadistic torture chambers. Whole populations […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]
Apocryphylia
[PDF file]: […] so, and had travelled extensively to and from the Soviet Union, on private business, since 1951. Conspiracy theories abounded on this point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British […]
View from
[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]
Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023
[PDF file]: […] Kingston upon Hull. Ismail Hassan Sowan, a 29 year-old Palestinian engineer was arrested and confessed to Scotland Yard detectives that he had been working as a double- agent for the Mossad on a sting operation directed against the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Britain. Sowan told the British that the Mossad had used him to […]
The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years
[PDF file]: […] But Harris and Wilbourn claim they have new evidence to suggest that Haushofer was risking his own life in the perilous mission, by acting as a double agent for the British. According to their earlier book Rudolf Hess: A New Technical Analysis of the Hess Flight, May 194112 the three most senior RAF officers […]
The view from the bridge
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, lead to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]
White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford
[PDF file]: […] 1 2 Hougan has some interesting material on Watergate at . This tale, taken with the account by Robert Merrit of his time as a gay informant/ agent provocateur in Washington in this period,3 convey a vivid picture of political sleaze in America’s capital, as well as being an exemplar of Peter Dale Scott’s […]