Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] whom 3 were convicted and Duquesne (1941), which was much more extensive. The defendants in both trials did all the things spies do – stealing plans for new tanks, aircraft and ships etc. – but, other than obtaining the blueprints for the famed Norden Bombsight, it seems doubtful that they contributed anything meaningful to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] to on her say-so alone, and without any formal charges being laid. He’s only wanted for questioning – again. Isn’t this odd? Since 2014 Britain has incorporated new safeguards into the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) – for example, that it would require the authority of a judge in the requesting country, not a mere […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: Gangsterismo The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 Jack Colhoun London and New York: OR books, 2013, £17.00 (UK), p/b As academic historians are wont to say: this is not my field. Like other JFK assassination buffs, I have acquired most of what little I know about this subject while reading […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] it is likely to be the biggest for 100 years.1 That said, it lends a certain perspective to the events of the last 50 years and a new twist to the ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ comment (which was falsely attributed to ‘Sunny Jim’ Callaghan, Prime Minister in the late seventies). It turns out that, judged […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Bernard Regan London and New York: Verso, 2017, £16.99 ISBN 13 9781786632470 Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom Norman G Finkelstein Oakland (California): University of California Press, 2018, £27.95 ISBN 9780520295711 Moment of Truth: Tackling Israel-Palestine’s Toughest Questions Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner London and […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Daily Mail’s correspondent in Germany since 1921 and who completely disagreed with the pro-Nazi stand taken throughout the 1930s by the paper’s proprietor, Lord Rothermere. Will Wainewright’s new book explores this remarkable situation and it’s a story made all the more relevant by the revival of the Far Right today. Reynolds had started out […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] developed at Area 51. But Jacobsen has bookended her account with sensational material about the Roswell event: did a flying saucer with or without aliens crash in New Mexico in 1947? Jacobson interviewed an early alumnus of Area 51 who told her that, yes, there was a saucer; and yes, it did contain bodies […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] unable to detect the payoffs in London, or, having made one failed attempt, just gave up. This is simply not credible.1 The point is that MI5 k new about the ‘Moscow gold’ and said nothing about it. Had the existence of Soviet funding been revealed in the late 1950s, the CPGB would have been […]