[…] Pakistani military are keen to prove their innocence: on October 21st a senior Air Force officer, Air commodore Abbas Mirza, revealed that the investigation had ruled out missile attack or any structural fault on the C-130 Hercules, thus pointing to sabotage. (8) Any proof of foreign complicity in the crash will lead to questions […]
From: David Renton I am grateful to Lobster for printing Larry O’Hara’s review of my book. It is always a pleasure to see your ideas considered in detail. However, your reviewer devoted a great deal of energy to criticising an argument which he has not fully grasped, and I suspect that readers of this magazine … Read more
[…] is prepared to do – and also regards the process of actual analysis of overhead intelligence as a purely objective process, which the experience of the ‘ missile gap’ in the late 1950s contradicts. These objections made, if you can afford £14.95, the book is worth getting as it contains information available nowhere else […]
[…] This could be organised and executed by a small number of people. We could speculate further. Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon, say many: it was a missile or a smaller plane. Yet on the Net there is a report by Christopher Kelly from the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, which begins: ‘What […]
House of Bush, House of Saud Craig Unger New York: Scribner, 2004, h/back, $26.00 I bought this because it was reported in the UK that the book couldn’t be published here due to our ‘stricter’ libel laws. Naturally, I wondered who among the Bushes and the Saudis might consider themselves libelled. The book is … Read more
For some time, the world’s secret services have been making use of loose structures parallel to the official clandestine hierarchies for their more controversial activities. Fred Holroyd’s revelations have shown how the British state employed Loyalist paramilitaries for kidnap and assassination operations in Eire, whilst the Irangate hearings have exposed what is, so far, the … Read more
Roundtable I get regular e-mail bulletins from an organisation called the roundtable – not the Round Table but somebody? some people? – trying to document the US ruling elite by the study of its organisations. Really they should be called Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) – because it is the CFR they mostly write about; … Read more
[…] safe for liberal capitalism. The Americans offered West Germany the latest and best high-tech weaponry. This did not include nuclear arms but it did extend to nuclear-capable missile systems such as Pershing, Nike and Sergeant. It was a deal which was good for the US balance of payments and defence industry while rearming West […]
[…] specific instructions from CIA officer ‘”Maurice Bishop”. As Veciana tells it, “Bishop’s” intention was to cause further trouble between Kennedy and Russia – within months of the Missile Crisis which had brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. His purpose was “to put Kennedy against the wall in order to force him […]
Secret Nazi Technology which could have changed the course of WWII Gary Hyland and Anton Gill, Headline Books, 1998, £18.99 Thirty years ago schoolboys built model aeroplanes. The most common and popular were, for the Airfix generation, the main combat types of the last great war – Spitfires, Me109s, Mustangs, Zeros, Lancasters, Flying Fortresses etc … Read more
