[…] 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 […]
Michael Phayer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008, p/b, £15.99 In 1997, urged on by the US government, fourteen European countries together with Canada and Argentina, established commissions to investigate the involvement of their banks in the holding of assets looted by the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust. One particular sovereign state refused … Read more
[…] blame for the failure to foresee what would happen in post-war Iraq.’(3) Steele quotes Douglas Hurd, former Foreign Secretary: ‘Blair and his colleagues sent British troops to kill and be killed in Iraq without proper planning … An inquiry is certainly needed to make sure this cannot happen again.’ But immediately under this Steele […]
[…] 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 […]
Who’s kidding whom? The September issue of Fortean Times carried a five page article by Robert Irving, ‘The Henry X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated [him] with the … Read more
[…] emerged on August 10th 1944 when, after the successful British and US landings in France (and, one should note, the collapse of the German opposition’s efforts to kill Hitler), Martin Borman convened and chaired a conference at Strassburg to supervise the mass shifting of capital overseas: ‘……so that after the defeat a strong new […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more
Through The Looking Glass: British Foreign Policy In An Age Of Illusions Anthony Verrier (Cape, London 1983) This will probably turn out to be an important book, maybe even a little landmark in the (scanty) literature on British foreign policy since the war. So far it has been largely ignored by the literary/political establishment, receiving … Read more
[…] CIA. But the CIA played a crucial role in the second conspiracy – the cover-up. To return to the ‘big three’, Henze, author of The Plot to Kill the Pope was CIA station chief in Turkey. Ledeen, of the Georgetown Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and author of Grave New World, is a […]
Election fraud Further to ‘How to fix an Election’ in Lobster 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the … Read more
