Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] much more sinister, because concealed, Left — the Left of the sophisticated world government bureaucracy, with its tentacles of international finance and its highly matured machine of conspiracy and terror — a Left that is so adaptable in its guises that it can often look like the most Conservative and “patriotic” Right — to […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Menzies before the war, but was frozen out by Churchill, who saw him as an appeaser and Germanophile, also claimed that he was the victim of a conspiracy and had been framed by covert supporters of the Cambridge Comintern, supporters who had, by the time of his trial and conviction for fraud in 1963, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] kidnapped and killed by the IRA, was involved in Green’s death, but the allegations were never confirmed. It was, as with the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, a conspiracy theory that was never proved’ (emphasis added). Fred Holroyd is those ‘rumours and allegations’.(1) Precisely what Nairac was doing we still don’t know. It is clear […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] catch up with it until tipped off about it by Roger Sandell. Subtitled “Things Japanese and Provocative Information”, Survival is a bizarre mixture of anti-Semitism, US far-right conspiracy theories (mostly reprints from Spotlight), some of the freakier bits of the US Christian (sic) right, with large doses of psychological gibberish, misinformation about AIDS and […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] that the paymaster for the hit, codenamed ‘Troit’, set Oswald up as a patsy. Who was ‘Troit’? McDonald ‘reveals’ in his later book LBJ And The JFK Conspiracy, that the KGB planned the assassination between 1961 and 1963. (Interestingly enough, McDonald’s co-author, Robin Moore, produced the film MacArthur with funds from the Unification Church […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] photographed at a party. Also in the photograph is Roy Garner, later convicted in a massive cocaine bust, and two other criminals. The authors of the Cocaine Conspiracy caption the photograph “Just good friends’. Although they do not add a question mark at the end, it is clear from the tone of the book […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] of political equivalent of Mary Whitehouse.'(p. 154) This may be a rather better comparison than Magee realised or intended, for Mrs Whitehouse, like Crozier, is an enthusiastic conspiracy theorist. (6) Crozier’s beliefs are immune from reality. On p. 150 he tells us that ‘socialism….. is by its nature irreversible’, something of great comfort, no […]
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. […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August 2006; Alexander […]