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 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 […]
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 23 (1992) £££
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
Steamshovel 11 The arrival of a new Steamshovel is an event. No matter that I am going to want to be picky about something in it, every issue contains items both substantial and intriguing – and much that would find a home nowhere else, that I can think of. (Except maybe Lobster. I wish I … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
Diana – the saga goes on and on..… Almost ten years after the fatal crash and the Diana industry still trundles along. In addition to her birthday concert(1) we are promised a slew of books(2)and a plethora of films and documentaries.(3) The main event, though, is sure to be the long-delayed but much anticipated inquest, … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more
