Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
the first book from the KGB archives John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, London, 1993 Yet another reheat of the interminable stew of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean et al, this time spiced up with material from the KGB archives. Yes, the KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking contrast … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Biological Warfare Center at Fort Detrick, Maryland. In 1952, he presented a paper, ‘An Evaluation of the Possible Uses of Extrasensory Perception in Psychological Warfare’, to a secret Pentagon gathering. In 1953, he lectured the US Air Force researchers on methods of increasing or decreasing telepathy, and the US Army Chemical Center on ‘Biological […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
It was very interesting being reviewed by the major media. While the left press – New Statesman, Tribune, Socialist et al – Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the non-metropolitan and Irish papers like it, we were slagged off by the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent; … Read more
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] (the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office) and of John Simon (the Lord Chancellor, who interrogated “Hess’) all show that the government was concealing a very great secret. As Eden told Simon on May 28 1941, a few days before he went off to question the prisoner, Cadogan “alone here knows of project’.(5) This […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
William Massie With Chapman Pincher retired from the Express group of newspapers, somebody had to take up his position as the spooks’ number one outlet. That person appears to be one William Massie. His name has appeared on some interesting material recently: viz: 14th February 1988, front page story in the Sunday Express based on … Read more
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] Pinay Circle’s significance lies in the fact that it is a forum which brings together the international linkmen of the Right like Crozier, Moss and Lowenthal, with secret service chiefs like Franks and Marenches. Through such contacts it can intervene by media action or covert funding whenever and whereever a political friend is in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs Douglas Valentine London/New York: Verso, 2004, h/back, £20 This comes garlanded with praise from Jim Hougan and Anthony Summers. The praise is justified: this is, as Hougan says, ‘a ground-breaking work of investigative reporting’; and it is, as Summers says, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] belief or simply unavailable to the public. (Some examples: ‘According to a high-ranking Pentagon official’, ‘according to Bruce Roberts, author of the Gemstone File’, ‘according to a secret CIA report’, etc.) Citations of this sort are the investigative equivalent of smoke and mirrors. In the event, Moore defines a professional conspiracist as one ‘who […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] to do what they liked when they liked with all activities nodded through by supine Home and Foreign Secretaries who were often mesmerised by the words ‘Top secret’. Ostensibly these agencies activities were secret. In reality what was secret were their activities impinging on civil liberties. The agencies ran huge leak machines to stoke […]
