Election time! Ah, the roar of the hustings; the pulse of democracy is about to be taken. The enduring worthiness of our political system is about to be proven yet again. But what’s that you say? Something’s not quite right with the result? You smell a rat? Be quiet. Such things only happen in tin-pot […]
Pieces without an author are by the editor. Parish Notices Thanks to Jane Affleck, Richard Alexander, John Burnes, Phil Chamberlain, Terry Hanstock, Robert Henderson, Paul Lashmar, Philip Murphy, Rom, David Turner, Peter Watson and Robin Whittaker for information. This issue of Lobster would have appeared a week or so earlier than it did had it […]
[…] Helms to DCI Dulles, dated April 3, 1953, Tab A, pp. 1-2. . Summary Report on CIA Investigation of MKNAOMI, Report Book I, pp. 360-63. Also see Kennedy Subcommittee Hearings on Biological Testing Involving Human Subjects by DoD, 1977. Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot captured by Soviet Union, carried one such toxin concealed […]
[…] in hand and I hope to return to the subject in a future issue of Lobster. TO: FBI. FROM: LEGAT, LONDON. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. CLASSIFIED BY 2040. EXEMPT FROM GDS CATEGORY J. DATE OF DECLASSIFICATION INDEFINITE. 7/9/77. Remyairtel 11/26/63 reporting a newspaper reporter in Cambridge, England had stated he received […]
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 […]
[…] it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.’ – Winston Churchill On July 17, 1996, 230 people boarded TWA Flight 800 at Kennedy airport, New York. About twelve minutes after take-off, 8.31 pm, the plane exploded and crashed into the waters off Long Island. There were no survivors. Immediately […]
[…] pointing this out, which IT published. In the process of this bit of research I wandered into fields about which I then knew little: American history, the Kennedy assassination, nuclear strategic theory, the history of the cold war and what was then just beginning to be called parapolitics. And I was fascinated. I spent […]
[…] The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at £29.50 (hb) £14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited and cannot be taken as anything like a real record of the […]
[…] – perhaps because of the shift to an American location and American characters – isn’t so good. The ‘men with the guns’ are the gunmen who shot Kennedy, and the book’s plot concerns a hunt for them a decade or more later. It’s a good idea but it doesn’t quite come off, neither as […]
Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the […]
