CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] which exonerated the Contras from involvement in drug-trafficking.(2) My researches into U.S. government involvement with drug-traffickers date back to 1970 when I wrote a book, The War Conspiracy, about the origins of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. I returned to this topic yet again in 1986, when I noticed that certain Cuban exiles […]

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Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not here. Some years ago I spent an entertaining couple of hours with one of those named in this book […]

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A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] by the right – all those elite planning groups, for example – and the authors feel obliged to admonish the reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it’s about lots of them: ‘Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. […]

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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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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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The aliens on the grassy knoll

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] intellectual incompetents, cranks, charlatans and the commercially motivated, there is something real going on. The important term to me in Van Wynberghe’s ‘occult irrationalism’ is irrational. The conspiracy theories described by Van Wynsberghe are to be rejected because their proponents disregard, or are ignorant of, the standard rules of inference and evidence. But the […]

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Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy theory suggesting that the Rockefeller family was lunging for complete control over the government’s critical national security functions, using the Council on Foreign Relations and Henry […]

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Vatican Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] the IHT version is longer and more detailed, and are trailers for Bower’s forthcoming Barbie: Butcher of Lyon. The Barbie episode has created considerable excitement in some conspiracy research circles in the US, where evidence of an enormous invisible Nazi sub-structure has long been sought. On that this writer is sceptical. There is no […]

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JFK: Oswald? Which one?

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] places Oswald on the 6th floor, the confession of Loy Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor.(4) Factor also places Ruby and Oswald together in the conspiracy. Factor claimed to have been a member of the conspiracy, recruited as a marksman by a man he called ‘Wallace’. He identified his ‘Wallace’ as Malcolm […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] is beyond the scope of this article, and may never be possible. Much of the activity of the anti-communist groups was clandestine: to fight the secret communist conspiracy — real or imaginary — they too operated in secret, set up cell structures. For example, there appears to be not a single academic article written […]

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