Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] After arrest at Faslane base women held for 30 hours, 4 to a cell, continuous lighting, no bedding. (Guardian 1 September – letter) Peace protesters charged with conspiracy – first such charge for 20 years. (Times 1 September) (c) and computers Home Office doubts about value of computers. There is no evidence that they […]

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Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] him from talking about the link. A September 16, 1986 affidavit by Paul R.Grand, attorney for former Khashoggi counsel Samuel Evans in a New York arms sales conspiracy case related to Irangate, contends that the 1981 Hashemi shipments had been secretly approved by the Carter Administration (Washington Times, 12/17/87). This, however, is extremely unlikely. […]

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Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] Laos. ‘Yet the US military, using personnel from Collins Radio as a civilian cover, proceeded to build the communications infrastructure for a generalised Indochina war.’ (The Dallas Conspiracy by Peter Dale Scott, unpublished manuscript, Ch 11, p3) In late August 1963 Collins won an important sub contract from General Dynamics to install high-fidelity radio […]

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Tailpiece

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] In the last few days of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy – led, apparently by MI5 – which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone […]

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The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] assassin who worked with the Wolves right up to the shooting in St. Peter’s Square on May 13 1981. This still leaves the question of a larger conspiracy. The Wolves had strong links with the Italian and German far-right. In the early 1980s the Munich Beerfest and the Bologna Station massacre were just two […]

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The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] a new type of unaccountable elite. This is already, if slowly, becoming the dominant force at the centre of the European project. There is no single ‘ conspiracy’ as such, just a convergence of trends towards a new consensus on how Europe can and should be governed. This crisis of authority just happens to […]

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Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] unconvincing Where does this leave us? If the book cannot establish that Parsons is quite the scientific figure claimed, or that he was a victim of any conspiracy, what Carter does show is that all the ingredients of contemporary ‘New Age’ culture can be found in the US west coast in the 1940s: interest […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] Graduate Theological Union, 1980). Minna, Rosario — ‘Il Terrorismo di Destra’, in Della Porta (ed.). Mintz, Frank P. — The Liberty Lobby and the American Right: Race, Conspiracy and Culture, (Westport CT, Greenwood, 1985). Moos, Felix — ‘Leadership and Organization in the Olive Tree Movement’, in TRASKB 43 (1967). Morris, Ivan I. — Nationalism […]

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Hess – the Fuhrer’s Disciple

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] detail by Hugh Thomas and reiterated (though with an intriguing twist) by Frank Kippax. (1) Then there are the speculations by those who accept an element of conspiracy, both in Germany and Britain, in 1941 and 1987, but who reject the idea that the man in Spandau was an imposter. The recent work of […]

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Ten Thirty Three: The Inside Story of Britain’s Secret Killing Machine in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] a period of time, became the means whereby the loyalist paramilitaries were brought to play their part in the British counter-insurgency strategy. There was, Davies argues, a conspiracy between Military Intelligence and the Ulster Defence Association which carried the battle on the streets to the very heart of the Republican movement; and the campaign […]

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