James Jesus Angleton and the ‘Third Way’ The CIA counter-intelligence expert James Angleton has for years been regarded as one of the keenest of cold warriors, who turned the CIA inside out in the search for Soviet ‘moles’ and ultimately had to be retired to prevent further damage to the Agency. But interesting current research … Read more
[…] the Commission on Preservation and Access which recommended scanning and discarding, was on Xerox’s advisory panel at the time. It is difficult, nevertheless, to discern an actual conspiracy at work in the story, though this may in part be owing to the book’s lack of a clear chronological structure. Rather, one gains the impression […]
[…] ‘accident’), in October 1983. As far as we are aware there is as yet no detailed study of the event, nor any plausible explanation of it. U.S. conspiracy buffs, accustomed to scenarios in which liberals/leftists – Kennedys, King, Panthers – are assassinated by the right-wing, seem to be both confused by, and disinterested in, […]
[…] of MI5. Some senior members of SOE also came from Slaughter & May. Cf Lobster Who’s Who. Barchard, p 177 Brendon O’Malley and Ian Craig, The Cyprus Conspiracy, (London: IB Tauris, 1999) Ibid. This book was reviewed in Lobster 38 The sensitivity of the issue may be judged by the events surrounding the publication […]
[…] of anyone else. The Research Centre is going to produce newsletters, clippings etc. Help Wanted Peter Jordon was convicted some years ago of being part of a conspiracy, with members of INLA (if memory serves), to assassinate a British Army officer. Whether he was guilty or not (or what he thought he was doing) […]
[…] has long been a supporter of Lobster – thanks for the plug, Kevin – and in one or two places his discussion of some of the loopier conspiracy theories on the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult […]
[…] Ascott House, de Rothschild’s home in Buckinghamshire, for a seated banquet for 100’. Just imagine how this Clinton-Mandelson-Rothschild link is going to be treated by certain American conspiracy theorists! Lobbying news The Labour government’s bizarre decision to follow America down the casinos-are-good-for-you route (See Lobster 43 p. 33) was the result of lobbying by […]
[…] Pine Gap, MJ-12, the mafia – even the Illuminati – all the signs to me of a beginner floundering around in the wonderful wacky world of American conspiracy theories, unable to tell shit from Shinola. The authors thicken this almost indigestible dish, lobbing in – just to give one example, to show their methods […]
[…] Britain’s relationship with Europe. Young concedes that at best, Britain’s relationship with Europe witnessed high political misjudgement, and at worst, involved not just a plot but a conspiracy; integration was accomplished only by deception.36 Likewise, Shore charged that on the issue of Europe, deception has been practised by successive governments on a scale, and […]
[…] he conspicuously hasn’t done, including not a line from either book that I can see. What he does tell us: Wilson ‘was…. predisposed to scent sabotage or conspiracy where none existed.’ (p. 475) Wilson ‘was not mad but lived on the fringes of a Kafka-esque world where madness was endemic’. (p. 478) ‘that something […]
