Who Owns Agca? Plots to Kill the Pope

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] were connected to the drugs/guns traffic in the region. Also averting their eyes, she tells us, were the liberal media in the US, especially (of course) the New York Times. Herman and Brodhead, two critics of Ms Sterling’s earlier, Readers’ Digest version of the ā€˜Bulgarian Connection’, are just as critical of the same media […]

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Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

ā€˜Let me through! I’m an academic conspiracy expert.’ Peter Knight London and New York: Routledge, 2000 p/b Ā£16.99, h/b Ā£60 Ā  Page one of this book or, rather more accurately, page ix, the first page of text, saw my heart sinking. There, above the preface, was a quote from Don DeLillo’s novel about Lee […]

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The New Spies: Exploring the Frontiers of Espionage

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] the CIA and the Russian intelligence service to talk to him, as well as SIS and MI5, and the result is a kind of survey of the new world disorder. I’m not very interested in, or knowledgeable about, the current state of the CIA or the Russian service, and skipped through most of that. […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

NFTB There is a new issue, no 6, of Larry O’Hara’s Notes from the Borderland. It is 68 pages, glossy paper, with essays on ā€˜journo-cops’, Paul Foot, Shayler and Machon and the Copeland bombing. In the UK this is Ā£3.50 from BM 4769, London WC1N 3XX; a two issue sub is Ā£7.50. Outside the […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] phrases from the sentence where I relate what Rep. Smith told me. I won’t cut the whole sentence, just the last fourteen words. Then I’ll put this new version out on the wire.’ Edwards: ā€˜Kick doesn’t even suggest that some kinds of change are being made more than others: ā€œOverall, the changes are usually […]

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The JFK Assassination on film, televison and video

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-1992 (ISBN 0-313-28982-4). The book is divided into 12 chapters covering such subjects as Oswald in New Orleans, Dealey Plaza (some 40 entries, no less), Dallas post-assassination, TV programs and compilations, documentaries, videos, theatrical motion pictures, and even lost, unconfirmed and spurious titles. […]

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RAF colluded in Hess flight

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] as the Czechs had peeled away, two Spitfires from the crack 602 City of Glasgow Squadron were scrambled from their base in Scotland. ā€˜Pedro’ Hanbury and the New Zealand ace, ā€˜Al’ Deere, were vectored in to shoot down the German intruder. In his autobiography, Deere said the pair of 602 Spitfires got close to […]

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Alastair Campbell (Book review)

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Peter Oborne and Simon Walters London: Aurum Press, 2004 p/back, Ā£8.99 Ā  If you were going to read only one book on New Labour, this account of the New Labour people and their relationships with the media, from the days of opposition through to Campbell’s resignation in the wake of the death of Dr […]

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ā€˜Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the problem.’ According to one former CIA operative, we are ā€˜an Islamist swamp’. So much so that 40 per cent of ā€˜CIA activity designed to prevent a new terrorist spectacular on American soil is now directed at targets in the UK.’(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the ā€˜War on Terror’ […]

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