Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Clint Eastwood Movies Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and to be released in Britain in December 2006, is an example of post-9-11 PR. It tells the story of the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima and has been described as the first film in which the balance of combat and public relations has … Read more
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] based largely on Soviet publications, and Bethel’s flawed book on the Albanian episode. Neither book takes on board the fact that the emigres used were largely ex- nazi collaborators, or how MI6 came to be involved with such people. The big secret that Philby and the other defectors took with them was the involvement […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] well-connected in Bolivia, and that the entire bunch were protected by the CIA. Some of the bloodiest coup-makers in Bolivia were recruited by Klaus Barbie, a fugitive Nazi war criminal and long-time CIA asset.(12) Confirmation of the CIA’s role came from testimony taken by the Kerry subcommittee in a closed hearing on July 23, […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] flits through the pages of Jonathan Petropoulos’s exhaustive survey of the German aristocracy’s involvement with the Hitler Gang, Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). In particular, Anthony Blunt’s post-war mission to Schloss Friedrichshof on behalf of the royal family is examined in some detail […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] wrote about this case many hears ago based on similar, unsubstantiated general accounts he had heard through a ‘source’. Filler also believes that the US Government possesses Nazi saucers that have been flying for almost 50 years! These are the best of Greer’s ‘witnesses’. Some of his others tell stories so hilarious that even […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] in attempts to revise the Holocaust out of existence, it offers the only attempt I am aware of at an integrated survey of recent and current neo- nazi activities. Much of this will be familiar in outline to readers of Searchlight, but even the familiar sections – WACL, Northern League, Pearson, GRECE – have […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] a book in which they claim to show how Pilcher was indeed a central figure) (3) the proposed arrangements – Britain to keep its Imperial role but Nazi Germany to dominate Europe including Russia to the Urals – were not a million miles removed from what had been discussed at a more formal level […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
When I began studying the Kennedy assassination, back in 1983, my naivety was considerable. It would be a few years before I fully hooked into the diffuse network of assassination researchers, and my hit-and-miss efforts to locate that fraternity produced some bizarre results during the 1985-87 period. Consulting periodical directories and other sources, I collected […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] the lack of positive evidence. This problem pervades the whole book. Friedlander discusses various scandals that people have tried to associate with Opus Dei, including the Vatican/ Nazi ratlines to South America, the Banco Ambrosiano/Robert Calvi case, the Swiss Guard murders and even alleged murders of recent Popes. As there is no proof of […]
