Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] classic Tory background. Eton/Oxford, inherited Beaverbrook wealth, writing speeches for Selwyn Lloyd (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) at 19 etc. He was also a libertarian, calling for drugs to be decriminalised, conducting numerous high society affairs and surviving an Official Secrets trial in 1969, having revealed too much about whom Britain was backing in […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] injuring all but one of its occupants. Immediately after the crash and before the emergency services arrived, Henri Paul was injected with a cocktail of alcohol and drugs to help establish him as the posthumous patsy. Diana was left to succumb to her injuries, her deliberately slow progress to hospital being part of a […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] motive in many cases. The individuals concerned often lived in small towns with few prospects, were unemployed, had generally difficult circumstances, had debts and were dependent on drugs.( ) They would be contacted by former colleagues, journalists or solicitors, told that they could make financial claims funded by legal aid and sheltering behind the […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] Traccy – Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization of Youth in Fascist Italy 1922-43 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1985) Kruger, Henrik – The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism (Boston, South End Press, 1980) LAB/IEPALA – Narcotrafico y Politica: Militarismo y Mafia en Bolivia (Madrid, IEPALA, 1982) Landis, Fred – Psychological […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] of influencing the democratic process. (The coked-up monkeys, similarly, were a rigged sample evidently intended to provide support for a larger campaign – the floundering ‘War on Drugs’). Labour figures moved to distance themselves from the attempted fraud. Campaign manager Peter Mandelson announced that ‘I have made clear……. that nothing of the kind should […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Russ Kick (ed.), Disinformation, 2001, $19.95, ISBN 0-9664100-7-6. Available from http://store.disinfo.com. I once sat in on an interesting conversation between two well known writers on the underside of politics. At one point, one of them alluded disparagingly to one of the scruffier areas of the conspiracy fringe – UFOs, maybe. The other reacted immediately: ‘Oh, … Read more
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] ‘The Far Right and Their Attempt to Co-opt Progressive Forces’, ‘KKK, The Fehme and the Founding of the Nazi Party’, and items on AIDS, WACL, CIA and drugs /mind control, assassinations etc etc. (This is roughly the same agenda as the late Mae Brussel but more intelligently handled.) They solve the problem of how […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] John Mulholland, was hired to ‘teach intelligence operatives how to use the tools of the magician’s trade – sleight of hand and misdirection – to covertly administer drugs, chemicals and biological agents to unsuspecting victims’ as part of Project MKULTRA.(19) Privates on the payroll The increasing use of PMSCs (private military or security companies) […]
