Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Some reflections on the life, times and politics of Sir James Goldsmith The Clermont Set The Clermont Club was opened in 1962 by John Aspinall after the gaming laws had been liberalised by the MacMillan government.(1)During the 1950s Aspinall built up a personal fortune providing premises for exclusive gambling sessions in London, much of which … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Spectre In the last Lobster 35 I reported on the new anti-EU magazine Spectre and wondered about its political orientation. In response, the editor, Steve McGiffen, sent an exemplary piece of candour from which here are some extracts. ‘….. Our original statement, sent out very widely, made it clear that we are minimalist to a … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Gordon Carr Christie Books, 2003 p/b, £34 (inc. p and p) from www.Christiebooks.com This is a reprint of Carr’s 1975 book on the Angry Brigade (AB), done in an A4 format paperback, to which Stuart Christie has added dozens of photographs of the participants, the scenes of the various bombings, magazine covers and other graphic … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] “suitably grateful” for the DeMotte and other “fine stories” which Bennett had been “feeding” Woodward; and also an arrangement between Bennett and attorney Edward Bennett Williams to “kill off” revelations of the CIA’s relationship to Bennett’s agency, the Mullen Company. Edward Bennett Williams, the lawyer who previously had done work for the CIA with […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign heads of state. One of the key Watergate burglars, James McCord, had recently retired from a senior position in the Office of Security.8 For $500 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] contacted him; and his family were given armed protection for the duration of the manhunt. Prudom had earlier rung Sanderson’s home and told his wife he would kill Sanderson. There was a bizarre coda to the Prudom affair. In September 1982, Sanderson’s superior in CCC, Paul Hazelgrave, contacted him. In an unsolved 1981 attempted […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the subject was sparked by an anonymous former Warren Commission attorney who complained that they were not given the full facts, especially about the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Cuban premier Fidel Castro.3 Although a great deal was kept from the Warren Commission, Shenon believes they got it right: the president was killed by one […]