whack Deak

The bag lady then grabbed the banker by the legs, dragged him into his office, and shut the door.

Well, I think this is the story that has everything, including fascinating parallelism between libertarian goldbugs and global organised crime.

Updatye: thinking about it a bit more, while there are clear grounds for conspiratorilaism here, it's also a fact that Deak's line of business tended to naturally attract unstable or vengeful people with access to firearms.

Comments

[ajay]

"By Mark Ames and Alexander Zaitchik".

Thank you. No further questions, m'lud.

[Chris Williams]

Reading that, I thought that the pull-out quote was:

"Among his first assignments was developing a plan to parachute oil executives disguised as Romanian firefighters into the Balkans to sabotage Axis energy supply lines. (Sadly, it was never implemented.)"

Until I got to:

"Assassin Jerome Johnson was a black neo-Nazi as well as a practiced marksman and member of the NRA. He also thought he was God. "

[jamie]

yes, and he went to assassinate Gallo 'while carrying a monkey' Lighten up Ajay, it's a great romp.

[Alex]

Wow, Ames didn't hit a woman in the whole thing!

CW: That plan is interesting, because SOE had the same idea two years before it and did a huge amount of strategising about Romania. There was even a whole Royal Engineer field squadron in Egypt waiting to be airlifted in to demolish the oil infrastructure once the diplomatic pieces lined up, which they never did because the politics of it was completely unrealistic.

Also, the monkey.