A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back, $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back, $29.95 These books cover some of … Read more
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When … Read more
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that … Read more
[…] fact that Shayler, while head of MI5’s Libya desk, learned from his MI6 counterpart that 6 had bunged £100,000 at a Libyan exile group to try and kill Gadhafi. Trying to contain the situation, Whitehall began the flogging of straw men and the issuing of non-denial denials. An unnamed Foreign Office spokesman said, ‘It […]
Srebrenica In Lobster 46 I noted that the publisher of Cees Wiebes’ Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995 had declined to supply a review copy. Mr Wiebes subsequently informed me that the full report on Srebrenica, commissioned by the Dutch government, including the material which made up his book, is on-line, in English, at … Read more
[…] Terpil in Beirut. A lot happened while we were there. We were staying in West Beirut at the Royal Garden Hotel. The Parti Populaire Syrien threatened to kill us – they thought we were CIA or Mossad – but, more to the point, Marilyn and Donna Korkala arrived out of the blue. Donna Korkala […]
[…] Daily Express, 31 July. My problem with the Kelly murder theory is that it has never been clear to me why anyone would think it necessary to kill him. With a senior British civil servant like Kelly there are more subtle threats status, pension that are effective. The two are similar but […]
Introduction: Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Lee Harvey Oswald, like his mother Marguerite Oswald (née Claverie), was born in New Orleans, on 18th October 1939, and spent his first five years in the Crescent City. In early 1944 Mrs Oswald moved to Dallas with Lee and his half-brother, John Pic. She changed addresses frequently … Read more
