Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Dulles, was working with McDonald, then Chief of Security for Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kimsey allegedly told McDonald at that time details of the plot to kill Kennedy. The actual assassin, Kimsey maintained, was a contract killer sometimes employed by Kimsey on behalf of the CIA. In his book Appointment in Dallas (1975), […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 edited by Michael David Kandiah and Anthony Seldon Frank Cass, London/Portland, Oregon, 1996 £29.50 As the title suggests this really contains two separate though not unrelated areas. The first is a series of shortish essays about so-called think tanks in the UK which follow on from … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. There is, of course, much to commend in the steps which Congress has taken to restrain the CIA and all forms of U.S. intervention in the internal affairs of other states. But the effect of these measures will be frustrated as long as new agencies – such as the … Read more
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] his elbow that he was unable to use it for any task requiring a modicum of strength. ‘ would have had to have been a contortionist to kill himself the way they claim…’(20) At the toss of a COIN The publication of a new counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine manual in 2006 (21) was seen by […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Election fraud Further to ‘How to fix an Election’ in Lobster 43, more news on the gentle art of perfuming a skunk. First Pick Your Voters Some strong contenders here. But first out of the hat is the Labour Party for performance during the all-postal voting experiments that were tried across the country in the … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam London: Constable, 2007, 576 pp., £9.99, p/b The Kurdish and Armenian Genocides: From Censorship and Denial to Recognition Desmond Fernandes Apec Forlag: 2008, 309 pp., £16.99, p/b Denial of the Holocaust is very much the preserve of the fascist right and … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Orlando Bosch’s most recent umbrella alliance, CORU (Co-ordination of United Revolutionary Organisations) had just been assembled in June 1976. In October 1976, according to Kruger, CORU representatives attended meetings in Barcelona, Spain, which established a new International Fascista. This comprised elements from the Italian MSI (the Ordine Nuovo of … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Young, of the cryptome site, had received telephone calls on behalf of SIS, asking him to remove the CX95 document (concerning MI6 involvement with a plot to kill Gaddafy) from his website, but refused. But should anything be published on the internet? John Young said they would publish anything on cryptome.org; but John Wadham […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] attempts were serious. Both ‘plots’ were exposed by tip-offs. The authors assert that all three attempts Dallas being the third were the mob trying to kill JFK; that the mob created three identical plots: ambush by rifle fire during motorcades with a patsy on the scene to be given to the police. […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
More, please In an account of his career as a writer of spy fiction (Guardian 16 November ’89) John Le Carré referred to the hostile reaction received by his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: ‘Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the British … Read more
