Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] the failure of his children to back up his alibi. Marita Lorenz, former lover of Fidel Castro-turned-CIA-agent, testified that she had been part of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy along with Hunt, another Watergate ‘plumber’ Frank Sturgis, and some Cubans. But her first-hand knowledge of the assassination is nil. She left the group in Dallas […]

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The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action. (7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] in April. When the donations scandal erupted last year, in which the LFI was implicated, Temko wrote a defence of the lobby group in The Observer, dismissing conspiracy theories about the extent of its influence. Proceeding with inquiries? At this writing the promised party inquiry by former Labour Party and Blair minister Lord Whitty […]

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Wizard: the life and times of Nikola Tesla

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] research papers in 1941/1942. Bergstresser later worked in the OSS. There is an interesting chapter on the life and work of Puharich in the otherwise unfathomable Stargate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince (London, 1999). Bouverie (née Astor) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York […]

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Fire Magic: Hi-jack at Mogadishu

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] report,(1) tracked her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. […]

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How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] and though involved in the CIA’s investigation of the assassination, has refused to comment on the Meyer episode. (See Washington Post February 23rd 1976. Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy  (US 1977). Judith Exner had been introduced to JFK by friend Frank Sinatra, and had an affair with him through 1961 and ’62. She also knew […]

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Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department […]

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The Neave letters

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] in Chile, was expelled to the United States for questioning about the Letelier assassination. He subsequently turned state’s evidence and testified about his key role in the conspiracy. Townley’s significance is that he was one of DINA’s most important agents and many of the DINA operations described in Labyrinth are written from his point […]

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