The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken

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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 […]

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Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

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

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Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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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 […]

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No smoke without fire?

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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 […]

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Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

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 […]

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How to Fix an Election

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 […]

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Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] set the stage for the much larger intervention in the Persian Gulf a year later.1 It also marked a remarkable escalation in the previously metaphorical ‘war on drugs’, by establishing Washington’s legal claim to the extraterritorial use of force to apprehend suspected drug traffickers abroad. Many accounts have chronicled the war of nerves leading […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] policies of the US government at the beginning of WWI. The demise of the FBN in 1968 coincided with an interregnum in which the so-called war on drugs was managed or mismanaged just like the war in Vietnam with which it was intricately connected. Richard Nixon’s attempt to recover US control in Southeast Asia […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] to Lobster for reviving “Transnationalised Repression”. Though the essay starts from events of the seventies (Watergate, the murder of Orlando Letelier in Washington, the Nixon war on drugs) which have since passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Porton Down, Britain’s main research centre for biological/chemical research. Dr. Sargant’s interest in the work going on there was to study the psychological implications of mind-blowing drugs such as LSD. He told me that he developed a rapport with Frank Olson during a number of subsequent visits Frank Olson made to Britain. Dr. […]

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