Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] strobe light as passed through one of Geneva’s motorway tunnels.’ (Richard Tomlinson’s statement of 11 September 1998 to John Wadham of Liberty concerning MI6’s 1992 proposal to assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia.) Available on David Shayler’s web site at: http://www.inside-news.ch/shayler/%21milosev.html France-Soir 10 September 1997. Posting by Tracey to the Conspiracy Theory Discussion Board […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
JFK bits and pieces Paul Hoch recommends JFK:The Book of the Film (Applause Books, 211 West 71 St NY, NY 10023). This contains a footnoted JFK screenplay and about 350 pages of published articles, including some of the best anti-Stone stories. The final badge of honour was bestowed upon Stone’s movie by a long, ludicrous … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the U.S. House of Representatives 1978 L.M.P. Systems 10420 Plano Road, Suite 101 Dallas, Texas 75238, USA In the last issue of Lobster while re-viewing two JFK-related CD-ROMS I half jokingly suggested that the Warren Commission Hearing and Exhibits and the House Select Committee evidentiary … Read more
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
Compromised Reporting Taking its cue from a powerful network of far-right radio commentators, the American press insists on noting only those financial scandals which don’t sully ultra-conservative politicians. Of either party. For example: Rush Limbaugh, who has become the Republican Party’s Goebbels, loudly applauded Clinton’s appointment of Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, an appalling Texas (Democrat) … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] and, of course, Douglas Hogg, then a junior Home Office minister, had publicly fingered solicitors sympathetic to republicanism. More successful was FRU disapproval of UDA plans to assassinate Gerry Adams. In the end, what brought Nelson down was the RUC Special Branch’s investigation into the loyalist murder gangs. They established a link between loyalist […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan’s last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient … Read more
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Dr. David Kelly The death of Dr David Kelly refuses to go away. Two groups of medical experts have expressed doubts about the suicide verdict. The International Toxicology Advisory Group have queried the conclusion that Kelly swallowed at least 20 co-proxamol tablets, which contributed to his death; ([1]) and a group of surgeons wrote to … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] Notes Online (PDF format) at Full text reproduced at Despite the general rubbishing of former SIS officer Richard Tomlinson and his allegations about an SIS proposal to assassinate Milosevich, the SIS officer he named did indeed recall that he had proposed the assassination of an unnamed Balkan politician and that the document recording this […]