Preface This paper was written for the History Workshop 20 in Leeds, during November 1986. In the workshop which I gave, I introduced the paper by pointing out that the arguments within it were very general and the paper itself entirely polemical. I explained that each of my last three books contain detailed case histories … Read more
In this issue, as in No 3, we are recycling a lot of material from Irish newspapers, and one in particular, the Sunday News. One of our Irish readers describes the Sunday News as ‘almost wholly Catholic..Nationalist … moderately Social Democratic Labour Party rather than moderately Republican.’ We have no way of checking the veracity … Read more
[…] British colony. It implies that IRA terrorists are authentic freedom fighters and in some ways allies of a British working class that they were actually trying to kill in large numbers during this same period. It implies that Loyalists are the stooges of imperialism, and hopelessly reactionary; that democracies do not have the right […]
[…] the Navy’s Court of Inquiry into the incident broke his silence and stated, inter alia: ‘There is no question in my mind that those people tried to kill every one on board. I was the counsel. I put witnesses on. I talked to kids never exposed to combat who’d seen their friend’s head blown […]
[…] the Reagan administration of an embarrassing individual – Larry McDonald. (The source of the embarrassment is detailed below.) Flynt’s hypothesis seems implausible (there are easier ways to kill people) but, as Flynt points out, Howard Hunt’s wife, Dorothy, was killed in a plane crash during the Watergate mess in very peculiar circumstances. (On this […]
[…] didn’t commit. Collum and Factor both had hepatitis and were in an isolation ward together. Factor confessed in vague terms to being part of the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Collum told his old school-friend Glen Sample about this and they passed the ‘confession’ to a journalist friend of Sample. But nothing happened and they […]
[…] journalists at that time; but mainly because there was no corroborative evidence for the fascinating allegations contained in it – notably the request by MI6 that Aspin kill the MI6 agent/bank-robber Kenneth Littlejohn. In the book Aspin’s MI6 handler was codenamed ‘Homer’. Surprise, surprise, an MI6 controller, Roger Hamer, codenamed Homer, is reported in […]
[…] Lebanon to “experience the thrill of killing people” and of thousands visiting the PLO mini-state in Lebanon who were “given a license to satisfy their instinct to kill” (emphasis added); and alleges that the bombings in 1980 at Bologna railway station and the Octoberfest in Munich “were carried out by Germans and Italians working […]
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
[…] over the Sea of Japan. There a frustrated Colonel Gennadiy Osipovich was forced into a wild last-minute manoeuvre called ‘the Snake’ to position his Su-15 for the kill. And, convinced by KAL 007’s antics that he was stalking a hostile ‘intruder’, kill he did. The 1992 revelation that the Soviets had recovered KAL 007’s […]
