Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

Articles

• Lobster Issue 50: Contents
• The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters -- Richard Cummings
• Tittle-tattle -- Robin Ramsay
• Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland -- Roger Cottrell
• Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite -- Tim Pendry
• A rough guide to the European Round Table of Industrialists -- Noel Currid
• The view from the bridge -- Robin Ramsay
• Trouble makers -- Robin Ramsay
• PR, espionage and language -- Corinne Souza
• Re:
• The accountability of the intelligence and security services -- Jonathan Bloch
• Understanding others -- Robin Ramsay
• No one ever suddenly became depraved -- William Clark
• David Mills revisited -- John Burnes
• Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’ -- Jim Hougan
• Feedback
• Tailpiece -- Robin Ramsay

Book reviews

• The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets -- reviewed by Simon Matthews
• The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK’s Assassination -- reviewed by Garrick Alder
• Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission failed the nation and why -- reviewed by Anthony Frewin
• Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
• The Blairs and their Court -- reviewed by John Newsinger
• Scenes From an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell
• The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories -- reviewed by Richard Alexander
• Zapata of Mexico
• The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us
• Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, national security and the creation of a modern UFO myth -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10 -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay
• Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft: book 1, The Nine -- reviewed by Robin Ramsay