The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World Ben Macintyre London: Viking, 2024, Epub (Kindle) £12.99 Nick Must What did Mr Macintyre think would be achieved by writing this book? I ask because there have been numerous previous publications that, in one way or another, have already covered […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] some country boys doing the shooting’. He claims he was told about the details by Cliff Carter and it is as the buffs always presumed: frame Oswald, kill Oswald while arresting him, use local law enforcement – interestingly the Sheriff’s Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. ‘The plan was to […]

NIck on Macintyre

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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World Ben Macintyre London: Viking, 2024, Epub (Kindle) £12.99 Nick Must What did Mr Macintyre think would be achieved by writing this book? I ask because there have been numerous previous publications that, in one way or another, have already covered […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended the First Indochina War. Central provisions were a ceasefire and withdrawal of French troops. French Indochina […]

NIck on Macintyre

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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World Ben Macintyre London: Viking, 2024, Epub (Kindle) £12.99 Nick Must What did Mr Macintyre think would be achieved by writing this book? I ask because there have been numerous previous publications that, in one way or another, have already covered […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Street bankers and weapons industrialists had convinced President Harry Truman, as the film shows, to produce 400 more atomic bombs to attack the Soviet Union in 1950-51, kill millions of its people, and take over its huge land and natural resources. (emphasis added) That Truman was so urged I could believe. That Truman was […]

Chris Hani book

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[…] 75-78 Nicholson discusses documents found by one Christelle Terreblanche as part of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These apparently discuss a plot by SAIMR to kill Dag Hammarskjöld. He writes: In 2014, Oxford scholar Dr Susan Williams updated her book, Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, and referred to the papers that Terreblanche had found, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] theory I can remember coming across and may mark the beginning of the current age of conspiracy theories. Like all good conspiracy theories, Gemstone is impossible to kill off and interest in Gemstone continues. Shawn Hamilton, for example, has an essay, ‘A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File turns 40’, in which he discusses […]

View from the bridge

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[…] was the only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.13 6. 7. 8. If items 3, 4, 5 […]

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