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
[…] 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 […]
[…] name of Lady Bird) purchased the Austin radio station KTBC in 1953, it was first located in the Brown Building, and later moved to the Brown-owned Dris kill building for which. KTBC did not have to pay. (11) The Texas political culture of the time was described thus: ‘What must surely be the most […]
[…] Habsburgs and Intermarium since the 1920s.() Seeking, perhaps, to pursue this opening given the silence from the British the German resistance made two attempts to kill Hitler (13 and 21 March 1943). Meanwhile the Hitler-Stalin proposal flickered back into life. In June 1943 serious talks were held in Stockholm and there was […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] who’s pulling the trigger and indeed may have encouraged it in the first place – but its fingerprints are rarely, if ever, found.’ Philip Johnson, ‘Licensed to kill? Yes, but…’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2008. See also Stephen Dorril, ‘The truth about MI6…’, The Express, 22 February 2008. Dearlove’s evidence at the inquest […]
[…] 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 […]
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more
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
[…] guidelines that were sent from the US were that detained guerillas, once information was extracted from them, did not deserve to live. The gringos wanted us to kill all the guerillas.’ Moll says that the Uraguyan armed forces rejected these instructions and consequently killed fewer guerillas than other Latin American countries who followed the […]
