Taking the blame
Paul Foot, 6 January 1994
Trail of the Octopus: From Beirut to Lockerbie – Inside the DIA
by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman.
Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £16.99, September 1993,9780747515623 Show More
by Donald Goddard and Lester Coleman.
Bloomsbury, 325 pp., £16.99, September 1993,
The Media and Disasters: Pan-Am 103
by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke.
Fulton, 346 pp., £14.99, October 1993,9781853462252 Show More
by Joan Deppa, Maria Russell, Dona Hayes and Elizabeth Lynne Flocke.
Fulton, 346 pp., £14.99, October 1993,
“... The American investigative columnist Jack Anderson has had some scoops in his time but none more significant than his revelation – in January 1990 – that in mid-March 1989, three months after Lockerbie, George Bush rang Margaret Thatcher to warn her to ‘cool it’ on the subject. On what seems to have been the very same day, perhaps a few hours earlier, Thatcher’s Secretary of State for Transport, Paul Channon, was the guest of five prominent political correspondents at a lunch at the Garrick Club ... ”
