Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of life occasioned to white troops by such expeditionary work would be avoided, whilst the cost would be considerably reduced’. The fact that such bombardment would inevitably kill noncombatants was more than compensated by the reduction in troop casualties and the comparative cheapness of the use of air power. And this seemed to be […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and re-examining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘defining moment’ in ‘the Era of Pandemonium’, was the president discovering ‘that disinfectant kills the virus . . . Maybe injecting the right kind of disinfectant might kill the thing’. (pp. 184-185) At the time of writing the US death toll from the pandemic has just exceeded 600,000 people. Smock is also outraged by […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] MI6 head Stuart Menzies. 65 While working for Interdoc, ‘with the other chaps’ Ellis put together an “action group”, keeping it “private and confidential as publicity would kill it”. (Stevenson 1985 p. 272) What this “action group” did isn’t known. Ellis was a contributor to Crozier’s 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] had once signed a treaty with Sikorski and much later was able to declare on his honour that he had no knowledge of any Soviet attempt to kill the general. Both aircraft were parked close to a high wire fence which marked the frontier with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, plotted with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador on orders from forces within the Iranian State.2 The source of these allegations was a Mexican gangster, already facing criminal charges on an […]