Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] hired Maheu to investigate a politically charged murder case involving U.S. intelligence agents and communist partisans in World War II Italy, involving $100 million in lost Allied gold. The case, which had major political implications in Italy, interested the CIA deeply. Williams and Maheu managed to demonstrate the innocence of an accused American agent […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the displays in the record shop scene show albums by Pink Floyd (‘Atom Heart Mother’), Crosby Stills Nash and Young (‘Deja Vu’) and Neil Young (‘After the Gold Rush’), all released in 1970; and, conclusively, a copy of the Daily Telegraph refers to the previous month’s Audited Bureau of Circulations figures as ‘August 1970’. […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] tennis balls’, despite the three balls being described in the text so presumably that’s ‘ton’ meaning ‘tun’ as in ‘barrel’ and a play on the ‘tons’ of gold that are also mentioned. 7 Churchillism). A political Walter Mitty, Mr Smith embellished his CV, claimed to be able to live on £52 a week, and […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] UK needed a ‘firm’ leader? into paedophilia in high places in the past. Watson should have read the late Richard Webster’s The Secret of Bryn Estyn, the gold standard for anyone venturing into such murky waters.7 Alternatively, he could have asked any number of people for advice. Perhaps this lack of experience and common […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage of the death17 was the fact that a gold signet ring was found on one of the burned bodies recovered from the wreckage, which helped identify the prince’s remains because it bore an engraved ‘W’ […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] guarantee the country at whose invitation it came freedom from foreign interference (the US 17 Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972), first president of Ghana, the first African colony (formerly Gold Coast) to achieve independence from Great Britain (1960), had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the United States. Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) travelled in the […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Wolf, has published a third volume in what might be called a ‘Ring’ cycle to elaborate the language of America’s elite in its wars for the ‘Rhine gold’, a.k.a. ‘national security’. Using the methods of a therapist and chronicler, Valentine 1 The Strength of the Pack The Strength of the Pack, like its predecessor […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] approach to such destruction of evidence is to dig deeper, and to make ‘spoliation inferences’ where the facts justify them. An over-reliance on documentary exhibits as the gold standard of evidence not only tends to produce false negatives when spoliation has occurred – it can also give rise to false positives. Words on paper […]