Birmingham Mail
PAMELA. Countess or Onslow, was injured today by a letter bomb at her London home. The 59-year-old Countess was lucky to escape death - only one detonator went off. But it cut her hand and head and singed her eyebrows.
In a second letter bomb attack in London today-at Alcan Aluminum Ltd., Albion House, Berkley Square - a woman secretary was taken to hospital with minor injuries
The Countess made the headlines two years ago as the socialite social worker whose name was connected with the Littlejohn brothers. She met Keith Littlejohn as a prison visitor.
Birmingham - born Kenneth Littlejohn claimed he was a "spy" against the IRA and the Littlejohn affair caused a strom in Parliament and in Dublin.
The bomb delivered to Lady Onslow's flat in Calcott Street, Kensington, was inside a copy of Pinnochio which arrived in a brown wrapper with a Dublin postmark.
When the Bomb Squad was alerted, detectives hurried to the home of Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Tory M.P for East Grinstead, who was also named in the bizarre Littlejohn affair. He was Army Minister at that time.
He was not a his home in Ilchester Place. West Kensington, but detectives are believed to have ert-tered his home and checked his mail.
Mr. Harry Robinson, Birminshan's 'Assistant Chief Constable (Crime), this after-Boon earned: "If you receive anything suspicious by mail, report it to us immediately."
The last letter bomb to explode in England before today was in Birmingham last December when Mr. Orvitle Phillips. of Clover Lea, Square. Ward End. suffered ' severe eye damage End burns.
No political motive For the attack was discovered.
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