Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Summers comes up with many new points which are all worthy of investigation. Unfortunately they seem to have gone unnoticed. It has been rumoured that the National Security Agency bugged the Cuban and Soviet Embassies. One would naturally assume that since it has always claimed that the embassies were the centres of KGB and […]

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An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] with FBI agents and other dirty tricksters, but Huey Newton was living in a luxury Oakland penthouse in 1971, overlooking Lake Merritt, and I doubt that ‘ security’ was the only reason. By 1978 I was living on the other side of the lake, and Newton was still considered politically correct as he returned […]

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America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] for that is what ‘the national interest’ means. But what is the ‘British economic interest’? British economic interests? The annual report for 2004/5 of the Intelligence and Security Committee noted in chapter 13 under the heading ‘Economic well-being’: ‘We took evidence from Ministers, departments and the Agencies on the Agencies’ work to support and […]

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Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] recovered from Thuringia in the 1930s…. Zero Point fails to provide either new information or entertainment. Instead it adds another layer of cover, telling us more about the sophistication of the security apparatus protect-ing this subject than it does about the elusive aircraft themselves. Notes 1 The Hunt for Zero Point, London: Century, 2001, £17.99

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Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] which first revealed the existence of the ‘Gable memorandum’, and included a quotation from a profile of Gable in the Jewish Chronicle which mentioned his ‘contacts…..in the security services’. The allegation that our article is ‘based on’ whatever former NF members Harrington and Griffin were writing or saying six years ago is totally untrue. […]

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I married a war criminal

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99   The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more

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Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] others (frequently American owned) when they retire. These consultancies presumably include any number of lobbyists and ‘risk assessment consultancies’ (whether owned by insurance companies or by private security companies which are themselves owned by foreign insurance companies). So much for patriotism! One can only laugh at all of this, for otherwise one would weep. […]

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Ian MacGregor: AMAX and armaments (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 Ian Macgregor and AMAX We have followed one of Macgregor’s leads into the British Establishment; now we return to the man himself. He was born in 1912 in Kinlochleven and graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in metallurgical engineering. He was a trainee manager at the British … Read more

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Information Policy Brief on the Ulster Citizens’ Army

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] decided to officially declare its existence as the UDA becomes more weak, ineffectual and incapable of defending Protestant workers and working class homes against attacks by the Security Forces. Composed of more socialist orientated and class conscious members of the UDA, the Army came into being as a result of growing dissatisfaction and frustration […]

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The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] and, after firing his first couple of shots, his arm was grabbed by one of the crowd. If Sirhan did not do it, Thane Cesar, a part-time security guard standing behind Kennedy, is the only other possible gunman. (When he was shot Kennedy whirled round and ripped-off Cesar’s bow-tie before he fell to the […]

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