[…] ‘Chicago Connection’, and some fascinating material about Abraham Bolden, the black agent who appears to have been set-up by the Service shortly after the assassination. Roberts, Craig. Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza. : Typhoon Press Christian Patriot Press, 1994. vii and 252pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Roberts, a former US Marine sniper, […]
In February this year, unnoticed by the press, a funeral took place in a quiet Sussex village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, … Read more
[…] plotter. Hunt pulled out of the plot on learning that ‘alcoholic psycho’ Bill Harvey would be one of the participants. ‘There were probably dozens of plots to kill Kennedy, because everybody hated Kennedy but the public….’, Hunt’s son says. ‘The question is which one of them worked? My dad has always said, Thank God […]
Political debris continues to fall from the bombing of the Pan-Am flight 103 on 21 December 1988, which killed 270 people. Fallout from Lockerbie has begun to reveal one of the ugliest political corruptions of recent times. This Byzantine tale is further evidence of just how powerful and ruthless the American-led international security apparatus — … Read more
[…] The MIHOP ‘sceptics’ presented in this book want us to believe that the US military-intelligence complex which, two years before, could not persuade itself to try to kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan because of the risk of civilian casualties, pulled off a stunt like this. The meaning of Northwoods? We are prisoners of our […]
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more
Trimble Henry McDonald, London: Bloomsbury, 2000, £16.99 The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings Don Mullan, Dublin:Wolfhound Press, 2000, £9.99 David Trimble’s first political involvement began in 1972 when, as a young law lecturer at Queens University, Belfast, he joined William Craig’s Vanguard movement, a hard line right-wing Protestant supremacist organisation that made clear it was ready … Read more
The Paris Review (PR hereafter except in quotations) has a new editor. Philip Gourevitch, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner for his book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and a writer for The New Yorker, has taken the position that was held … Read more
[…] there was no conspiracy, and those bullet holes in the doorway weren’t bullet holes after all. I wish I could believe him. PEPPER, William F. Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995. xxxi + 537 pps. Illustrated, notes, index. A highly detailed and […]
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
