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[JAMES ANGLETON] was born in Boise in 1917 and lived here until he was 10. Later, his family moved to Milan, Italy where Angleton's father ran the Italian franchise of National Cash Register. The younger Angleton graduated from Yale in 1941 and entered Harvard Law School, but was drafted into the U.S. Army in early 1943. Later that year, he entered the country's first real foreign intelligence agency, the Office of Strategic Services, and in 1947, joined its newly created successor, the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA Director Allen Dulles appointed Angleton to head the agency's counterintelligence staff in 1953. Angleton was a champion of Anatoly Golitsyn, a major in the Russian KGB who had defected to the U.S. in 1961. Golitsyn insisted that the Soviets had planted a "mole" inside th...
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The assassination of a former Afghan president reflects the dangers of negotiations with the Taliban: Any effort toward a peace deal can bring deadly action to stop it from factions within the multi-headed insurgency. Supporters of the slain Burhanuddin Rabbani angrily warned Wednesday that there is no hope in seeking negotiations, a key policy of President Hamid Karzai that the United States has backed. Afghans involved in peace efforts are fearful of reaching out to anyone within the Taliban and risk being targeted themselves.
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The second, more recent assassination in a year of political murders was that of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last week, which was authorized by Ariel Sharon. Yassin was in his late sixties, was quadriplegic and nearly blind, and was killed by a helicopter missile attack as he was pushed out of a mosque in his wheelchair. Can one imagine a more perfect profile for a martyr? He was the founder of Hamas (which means "zeal") and a devout Muslim. He was accused of inciting suicide bombers but had only recently been released from an Israeli jail, in return for some Mossad agents. In fact the amount of time he had spent in Israeli jails made it unlikely that he had done any actual organizing of the bombers. Up until the first Intifada, Yassin's focus had been entirely on cultural and social work, and ...
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[Jack Ruby] made several trips to Cuba in the summer of 1959. On one of those trips he visited Santo Trafficante, Jr., who was then being held by the Castro government in a detention camp named Trescornia. The Ruby/Trafficante meeting was reported to the FBI branch in London, England, within days of the assassination by a journalist who had also been detained in Trescornia. If, as "Ultimate Sacrifice" asserts, Trafficante was a principal player in the assassination, an investigation into the journalist's report of a Ruby/Trafficante association might have broken the case open in 1963. But the national FBI headquarters ordered its London office to cease the investigation. "We already know Ruby was in Cuba," the order noted. It is, however, a misnomer to say "the Mafia" killed Kennedy...
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Let me start off by saying that the word assassination" is used hesitantly here because it is biased in favor of White European "Christians." Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary gives this etymology for "assassin": "One of a secret order of Muslims that at the time of the Crusades terrorized Christians and other enemies by secret murder committed under the influence of hashish." So, when you say someone was "assassinated," you're saying he was killed by someone acting like a dark Muslim in killing a White "Christian. What if outside of brutal life lessons that the school of hard knocks taught you there isn't much left in your repertoire to teach? Well, do what Malcolm X did. Teach yourself. Become an "autodidact" (or, "a self-taught person"). Incidentally, Malcolm said "separatio...
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THE ASSASSINATION OF GOVERNOR BOGGS," by Rod Miller, Cedar Fort, $14.99, 210 pages (f) Lilburn W. Boggs was quietly relaxing with his family in Independence, Mo., on May 6, 1842. The former Missouri governor had just eaten dinner and retired to his sitting room to read the local newspaper. Suddenly there was a horrendous blast and the window of the sitting room exploded inward. Seventeen lead balls flew into the room, narrowly missing Boggs' small daughter. Most of the balls imbedded themselves in the home's walls but four found their way into Boggs' head and body. By most accounts of the day, Boggs had been assasinated by an unknown assailant.
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BEIRUT - Hours after An Nahar columnist Samir Qaseer was killed by a bomb apparently planted in his car in the Achrafieh neighborhood of Beirut, The Arab American News spoke with Reinoud Leenders, International Crisis Group's analyst for Lebanese and Syrian affairs. Leenders spoke about the death of his friend Qaseer, ICG's "Syria After Lebanon, Lebanon After Syria" report released in mid-April and the three remaining rounds of elections in the country. RL: Well as we speak there is a new wave of repression in Syria. You have the recent case of the Kurdish imam who was allegedly tortured by Syria to death. But more importantly in the context of Samir's assassination, there is the campaign against the Atassi grouping, the last remaining tolerated opposition forum in Syria. Some members o...
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The queen of diamonds is reminiscent in many ways of Raymond's dearly loved and hated mother..."-Frank Sinatra, "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) For the most part, their comments have been brief and to the point, such as: "There's no way a Black man will ever become president in a country as racially polarized as America." Or if he does manage to get elected, "There's no way he'll survive in office. The JFK assassination first was examined in 1973's "Executive Action," with Burt Lancaster and Robert Ryan. A spare 91 minutes, this movie built a strong case for a conspiracy led by a group of rich industrialists who opposed the president's stated anti-big business and pro-civil rights positions. Vestiges of Kennedy's murder reappeared in 1974's astonishing "The Parallax View." In this o...
