The Iron Triangle: inside the secret world of the Carlyle Group

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] self-righteousness of The Iron Triangle, ‘… all you’re left with is baseless innuendo… … this book should be exposed for what it is: a compilation of recycled conspiracy theories masquerading as investigative journalism.’ Given such a view it is hardly surprising that the Carlyle Group forbade its employees from talking to Briody. However, despite […]

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Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] vast area of human political activity is consigned to a land marked ‘Here Be Monsters’. Anything in this land is a marvel, mere fable (or rather ‘ conspiracy theory’). Vast swathes of contemporary history and current state practice simply do not exist – not, at least, until the files can be opened and academic […]

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Coroner to the Stars

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the ‘ conspiracy angle’ was quite plain: the autopsy proved – without qualification – that Sirhan Sirhan didn’t (couldn’t have) fired the shots which killed Robert Kennedy. Scott’s answer […]

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Sources: Journals

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] of Spooks and Secret Agenda), who writes that ‘the parapolitical underground should consider whether or not it matters that they’ve got it right or wrong. If any conspiracy theory will do, then the Steamshovel Press should be regarded as a literary enterprise — like Fate or Granta. If, on the other hand, it seems […]

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Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] their confidential documents he passed to Konkret in 1982. Published in Spiegel at the time and reproduced in Lobster 17, the documents give external confirmation of the conspiracy to effect a change of government in Britain, and reveal the European and world-wide links in this conspiracy through the Pinay Circle. The Pinay Circle (also […]

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Lobster Issue 24: Contents

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] UK (Tel: 0482 447558) ISSN: 0964-0436Contributors to this Issue Larry O’Hara is completing a PhD on British fascism Scott Van Wynsberghe has written widely on the Kennedy conspiracy, notably in The Third Decade. Scott Newton teaches history at the University of Wales in Cardiff John Booth is a free-lance journalist living in London Previous […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] to be the standard populist, back-to-the-constitution stuff which now passes for thought on the further fringe of the U.S. right, liberally dosed with now rather archaic communist conspiracy stuff. In the pursuit of which, in an open letter to a U.S. senator, Coleman produces one of the great non-sequitors. ‘If you do not believe […]

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Lonrho

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] offence against Section 84 of the Larceny Act 1861 in relation to the recommendation to shareholders in 1966 relating to new options being granted to Rowland. A conspiracy to defraud in relation to Nyaschere and the Shamrock mine of which the essence was personal enrichment of the principals. Offences against Section 19 of the […]

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The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] the 1980s. But all things pass….(4) Quid pro quo? Both the Ian Black piece in the Guardian and Rupert Cornwell’s version in the Independent referred to ‘ conspiracy theorists’ who believed that the Libyans had not shot Fletcher, but believed that it had been done by, or at the behest of, the United States […]

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