Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] Szulc, p. 16. Southwood and Flanagan, pp. 38-39 (Cambodia). According to a former U.S. Navy intelligence specialist, the initial U.S. military plan to overthrow Sihanouk ‘included a request for authorization to insert a U.S.-trained assassination team disguised as Vietcong insurgents into Phnom Penh to kill Prince Sihanouk as a pretext for revolution.’ Hersh, p. 179.
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Billiere began to learn the art of ‘man-management’, of how to get young working class soldiers to willingly obey orders that might well involve them having to kill or be killed. ‘Commanding men – I began to see – is actually a question of getting them on your side … and working to bring […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
See note 1. Introduction We were as surprised as anybody at the furore over Oliver Stone’s movie. When we published the Dean Andrews material and the analysis of the Clay Shaw U.K. contacts in Lobster 20, in November 1990, we did so in the certain knowledge that hardly anybody was still interested in the JFK … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
Bill Rolston Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, 2000, £12.99 This contains a couple of dozen accounts by people who have had a relative killed in Northern Ireland by British state forces – accounts chiefly of their attempts to get the authorities to investigate the killings. All but one of the accounts is by a member … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Intelligence and the gunmen of the Ulster Defence Association, with Nelson as go-between’ p.102). Even more dramatic was FRU involvement in actually planning the unsuccessful attempt to kill Sinn Fein councillor, Alex Maskey in July 1987. To help the gunmen escape the FRU put ‘an exclusion zone in operation on the estate where Maskey […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] the fact that Brown was one of the detectives, working undercover, who first won the confidence of Johnnie Adair, (head of UFF C Company, the Lower Shan kill), got him to boast of his crimes while being secretly taped, then secured his conviction in 1993 on charges of directing terrorism. At its simplest, if […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] this fascinating sub-plot: Ian Sparks, ‘Car fire suicide of Diana paparazzo deserted by wife’, Mail on Sunday 11 June 2000; Helen McCabe et al, ‘Did this man kill Diana?’ Sunday Mail 2 July 2000; Nick Paton Walsh, ‘Di and the FBI’ The Christchurch Press 8 September 2001. 4 The ‘Boston Brakes’ stratagem supposedly involves […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
Assassination or ‘targeted killings’? Joshua Raines of the University of Iowa College of Law argues that although assassination, ‘narrowly defined’ [sic], is illegal, ‘targeted killings’ could well be permissible under ‘just war’ criteria. The US should therefore pass legislation that allows for ‘…targeted killings under a very narrow range of circumstances with adequate checks built … Read more
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] fatal fall from a window during the Lancaster House talks in London in 1979 might well have been just such an operation. Stiff was particularly eager to kill Joshua Nkomo and was continually perplexed by the refusal of the CI0 to authorise such an operation. The go-ahead was eventually given in early 1979. He […]
