Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] journalists at that time; but mainly because there was no corroborative evidence for the fascinating allegations contained in it – notably the request by MI6 that Aspin kill the MI6 agent/bank-robber Kenneth Littlejohn. In the book Aspin’s MI6 handler was codenamed ‘Homer’. Surprise, surprise, an MI6 controller, Roger Hamer, codenamed Homer, is reported in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
JFK: The two Oswalds Anthony Frewin Those of you who missed the two articles by John Armstrong on ‘the two Oswalds’ in recent issues of Probe magazine, don’t despair: Armstrong has rewritten and considerably enlarged them as a two volume DTP work. Armstrong’s finding may be the most significant research breakthrough in years. But we’re … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] didn’t commit. Collum and Factor both had hepatitis and were in an isolation ward together. Factor confessed in vague terms to being part of the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. Collum told his old school-friend Glen Sample about this and they passed the ‘confession’ to a journalist friend of Sample. But nothing happened and they […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] minister’s time that it is not difficult to believe, as Joe Haines has reported in his most recent account of these events, that Dr Stone offered to kill her. (3) The book is full of fascinating fragments. One worth telling here concerns Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Daniel Ellsberg New York: Viking, 2003 Colin Challen MP The timely publication of Ellsberg’s memoir shows that from the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States’ approach to starting war. Ellsberg’s account of secret White House activity in the wake of the Tonkin … Read more
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
[…] era. Most usefully the authors cite the available information sources on Ball which we have reproduced below. Face to face with the colonel accused of plotting to kill the Pope Tana de Zulueta and Peter Godwin Sunday Times Magazine May 26 1985 Long, detailed account – essentially a refutation – of the ‘Bulgarian connection’, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] The letter to O’Hara reflects this inability to tell truth from fiction. Gerry Gable is accused of being in some kind of plot with the KGB to kill Lyndon LaRouche’s people in Paris some years ago.(4) In making this accusation he grossly libels an academic and writer by saying that Gerry had paid this […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
US deception operation blowback The e-newsletter stuff (1) ran this fascinating piece around 15 March. ‘At the Princeton conference last Saturday, Raymond Garthoff, a distinguished historian now with the Brookings Institute and a former CIA analyst, mentioned that we had recently learned of an FBI-Army double agent operation that may have spurred the Soviets to … Read more
