Camus Death KGB hit? / gold wc

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Sat Dec 7 22:32:56 UTC 2019


It was the fucking KGB, of course, or one of its former agents. We have 
always been at war with Eurasia. Or was it Eastasia?

"Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with
Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now
completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, 
books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs--all had to be 
rectified at lightning speed. Although no directive was ever issued, it 
was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one 
week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with 
Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere."

George Orwell, "1984" (Penguin, 2003),

Just riffing. As for the article in the Guardian (and much thanks for 
the link, Gary Webb): Charles de Gaulle colluding with the KGB in order 
to assassinate Albert Camus sounds rather far-fetched to me. The OAS 
collaborating with the CIA in order to assassinate JFK, on the other 
hand, sounds quite plausible to me. But who knows.


Am 07.12.2019 um 22:47 schrieb RZ:
> So, did Video kill the Radio Star, or was that the fucking KGB, too?


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