Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Business Age, and striking though they were, did not include any reliable evidence.) He is also occasionally inclined to assume that chronology is causation. The vast state conspiracy he describes against the smaller firms involved in the arming of Iraq, complete with murders, blackmail, and corruption in almost every government department, is probably true. […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] they couldn’t persuade a British jury to convict a bunch of foreigners with Arab-sounding names; a plot so feeble the police were reduced to calling it a conspiracy to cause…… panic! (9) The comic highlight for me was the TV pictures of police or army personnel entering the house in full Chemical and Biological […]

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MacV-Sog Command History: Annexes A, N, and M (1964-66)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] a conclusion that, even if SOG did spark the full-blown phase of the Vietnam War, such a result was not intended. Moreover, it now appears that any conspiracy theory cuts two ways. If SOG was riddled with untrustworthy, local employees right from the start, then Hanoi may have known what was coming in advance […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] yes, indirectly it led to a major movie, Oliver Stone’s JFK. But Holland tries to make the Garrison/Permindex material the kind of inner motor of the JFK conspiracy research activity since 1968; and this is just baloney. Holland cannot resist trying to puff up his thesis: ‘Garrison’s real legacy was not his investigation, but […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] Friends from Birmingham politics were warning me of this radicalism and its potential for violence in the late 1990s – and added that there was a collusive conspiracy of silence between local media and the authorities to down play incidents for fear of ‘upsetting race relations’. The ‘hawks’ therefore have a point that ‘doves’ […]

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The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more

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A Bush and Botox World

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Bells of recognition may be ringing, for it was the IPS which was at the heart of one of the American Right’s conspiracy theories two decades ago, thinly disguised in the Robert Moss/Arnaud de Borchgrave novel about KGB penetration of America, The Spike. (20 Landau, I guess, is an […]

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Changing the guard: Notes on the Round Table network and its offspring

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] length. Watt certainly knows something of the group’s role in 20th century history, and their omission in this new book may reflect what Quigley perceived as a conspiracy of silence on the group’s activities. What is positive in Watt’s perspective is the focus on the role of concrete individuals. When Ross, in his book […]

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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the Guardian, through its editor, Rusbridger, kept from them a letter stating that they were under investigation themselves and were facing a possible prosecution charging them with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Rusbridger’s version is that the letter was overlooked during a holiday period. Anyway, the Guardian pulled them off the story […]

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Loose cuts and short ends

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the 1952 picture and those we saw in the late eighties, the eyes, eyebrows and the ears seem similar. Though Wright became a fairly run-of-the-mill, right-wing, communist-obsessed conspiracy theorist, when younger he taught in the Workers Educational Association and voted Labour in 1945. (Spycatcher pp.30 and 31) He came from the middle class, and […]

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