[PDF file]: […] for a quote from Merle Miller’s Lyndon: an Oral Biography88 to the effect that senior CIA officer Richard Helms reported hearing LBJ, when president, saying that Kennedy’s murder was retribution for the murder of President Diem of South Vietnam some weeks before. Do we believe Helms? As CIA’s Deputy Director of Plans at the […]
[PDF file]: […] Saville Inquiry in 2003, with BBC news reporting: ‘Soldier F agreed at the Saville Inquiry on Thursday that he killed four people, but insisted he did not murder them. Soldier F admitted killing Michael Kelly, Barney McGuigan and Paddy Doherty and an unidentified man in Glenfada Park.’ 2 In 2011, an entry on the […]
[…] have depressed someone whose life was in good shape, never mind someone like Casolaro whose life was falling apart, it is nonetheless pretty clear his death was murder and not suicide. And presumably because someone thought he was getting too close to something. But who? And what? remain almost as opaque at the end […]
[…] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]
[…] government by militant left-wing groups. (p. 110) Which is what Peter Sanderson was describing in the piece I wrote in Lobster 81, ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’.11 ‘Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a […]
[…] Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]
[PDF file]: […] an unexpected way. Mr Talbot produces quoted remarks from Dulles about his time on the Commission, made to a former CIA colleague a year after the Kennedy murder: ‘ The “ifs” just stand out all over it. And if any of those “ifs” had been changed it might have been prevented… it was so […]
[PDF file]: […] his private jet. See . 7 8 See . 9 See, for instance, . 10 Tony Geraghty, The Irish War (London: HarperCollins, 2000) p. 230. ‘Loughlin Maginn murder sparked events that led to collusion probe’, The Irish News, 17 September, 2022 at or . 11 3 There are potentially close to 100 similar cases12 […]
[…] expert to see the fallacy of the singlebullet theory.’ A more recent essay by Denton, ‘Joan Mellen did not debunk the idea of LBJ’s complicity in the murder of JFK’ does what its title suggests it will and includes this: Or the fact that the population does better under Labour governments. On which see, […]
[…] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]
