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 […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Chris Hani book copy

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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, […]

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

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

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.2 6. 7. 8. If true, items 3, 4, […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and, by extension, on Cuba. And four patsies and four apparent assassination attempts implies a very large operation indeed. The Paul Bleau, ‘The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK: The Historians’ Guide on how to Research his Assassination – with an addendum’ at or . 27 28 See note 27. 29 See note 27. […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and three days after Hess crash landed in Scotland, when someone asked the primeminister in the Commons why the Minister of Information was not handling, with ‘s kill and imagination the news of the flight to this country of this very high and important Nazi leader’, all that the most eloquent of British war […]

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[…] and or . 5 3 A reworking of the Israel-dunnit theme has been published by the Electronic Intifada, Jim DeBrosse’s ‘Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK’.6 Mr DeBrosse hangs his assembly of fragments on the recent discovery that one of the CIA officers involved in the pre-assassination monitoring of Oswald, Reuben […]

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[…] and or . 5 3 A reworking of the Israel-dunnit theme has been published by the Electronic Intifada, Jim DeBrosse’s ‘Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK’.6 Mr DeBrosse hangs his assembly of fragments on the recent discovery that one of the CIA officers involved in the pre-assassination monitoring of Oswald, Reuben […]

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