Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Greg Bishop London/ New York: Paraview, 2005, $14 (US), p/b In Lobster 40 I presented a summary of this story. This book-length version adds much detail but nothing substantially different from that summary. Bennewitz was an electronics manufacturer in New Mexico, who lived a few yards from the boundary fence of the Kirtland […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] what Britain’s gentlemen spies have been up to abroad since World War Two. Dirty work by dirty bastards is my view, but I may be prejudiced. This new book is of the same high standard as Dorril’s other books, but I can safely say that MI6 will lose no sleep over this one. Lobster […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] of microwaves and mind control continue to produce items of significance: the subject is finally breaking through into the mainstream media. For example a piece in the New Scientist of 6 February 2000 described experiments being conducted using magnetism on the brain. It begins thus. Aim a magnet at a healthy brain, and the […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] To: 5927 Kingsbury, St Louis, MO 63112, USA. It is also available in this country through AK — on whom see below. Flatland Just as I k new I would like something calling itself Steamshovel, I knew that I would like Flatland. I have the Fall 1992 issue, its seventh edition. Flatland is essentially […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] gathering, chiefly; and some of the espionage stuff – for the most part the book is dotted with fascinating bits and pieces. Large chunks of it were new to me; and, to judge by the reviews, new to everybody else, too. I could fill a page with these snippets. But here’s just one: on […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] a book on Communist Subversion and British counter-intelligence 1939-45 (Jonathan Cape). Our view of that might be influenced by the fact that he has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has just published a massive biography of Solzhenitsyn, is turning to a study of the CIA-funded anti-communist propaganda operations of the […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] of the Conservative Party may discover that upon its heart in the 1960s “Rhodesia” was indelibly graven.(1) With the arrival of Mrs Thatcher in 1975 came “the New Right”, with about as much claim to be called “new” as had the “New Left’ a decade earlier. Although the Tory right has a history with […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] deal about Kincoragate. Lambray’s 900 page autobiography happened to go missing. MI5 was highly pleased – the book named names. (Guardian 28th July 1983) * * * New Society (31st June 1984) Former MI5 officer Miranda Ingram, who worked with Michael Bettaney, describes working conditions and MI5 philosophy. Boring for her and for us…. […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Commission. Suddenly, it was intellectually disreputable – ‘paranoid’ and unpatriotic – to question the edicts and findings of respectable institutions like the Warren Commission, CBS and the New York Times. Ambitious academics, desperate for tenure, took their cue. Serious researchers like Harold Weisberg soon found it almost impossible to publish; and when a publisher […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] At the time of the collapse, some eighty banks were owed amounts ranging from the odd million to tens of millions. Few, if any of them, k new of the extent of the obligations to other banks. Polly Peck shares began to slowly slide in value over the course of the year. This raised […]
