[…] Long-range shooting is intrinsically unreliable and generally means that the assassins can’t get close enough to do it any other way. (Assuming that the intention was to kill; it might just have been to fire at Kennedy; the death a bonus.) This was true, for example, of some of the many attempts by the […]
[…] activist. He presents a selection of the known and reliable evidence to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal […]
[…] away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the story. Orders to Kill is an account of his involvement in the continuing investigation from 1978 to the present day. Pepper provides a participant’s view of all the major events […]
[…] in Mexico, democracy works like this: vote for the PRI or PAN and have some waterproof cardboard to roof your shack; vote for the PRD and we’ll kill you. Higher up the social scale there is more money, and a greater variety of forms of cooption. But the neo-liberal system reserves the right to […]
[…] man. “The squads consisted largely of ex-soldiers rather than experienced police or intelligence personnel”, and their overall commander used them “to exploit existing intelligence to capture or kill insurgents themselves”. (5) In contemporary Northern Ireland the SAS and E4A, the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s Mobile Support Unit have had a similar role. (6) The Palestine […]
[PDF file]: Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain Garrick Alder I: ‘The weapons of divine justice’ On 19 September 2022, an American blogger living in Ukraine uploaded a video to YouTube. It was called ‘Notes on Being Unpersoned’. The blogger, Gonzalo Lira, had been extremely critical of the Ukrainian government, and of the western governments supporting […]
Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain Garrick Alder I: ‘The weapons of divine justice’ On 19 September 2022, an American blogger living in Ukraine uploaded a video to YouTube. It was called ‘Notes on Being Unpersoned’. The blogger, Gonzalo Lira, had been extremely critical of the Ukrainian government, and of the western governments supporting […]
[PDF file]: […] 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, […]
[PDF file]: Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain (continued) The Bandera legacy Under Stepan Bandera’s leadership, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN)1 had pledged allegiance to Nazi Germany, since both the Third Reich and the OUN sought to defeat the Soviet Union.2 The OUN’s paramilitary branch, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, enthusiastically helped to round up and […]
Stakeknife: Britain’s Secret Agents in Ireland Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin Dublin: The O’Brien Press: 2004, £8.99, p/back Mad Dog: The rise and fall of Johnny Adair and ‘C Company’ David Lister and Hugh Jordan Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/back Stakeknife is a former member’s account of some of the operations of the … Read more
