South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 70 or 71 2 Correction This should be “note 4”. ‘We have found no new evidence that the police officer who fired the gun 3 intended to kill Paul. In my view, the firing of the baton gun on that Suggestion occasion was wrong and unjustifiable.’72 I can see why you have moved this […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] working for (and then campaigning against) MI53 has it that, in the early spring of 1996, intelligence reports stated that there had been a failed attempt to kill Gaddafi: ‘ . . . reports indicated that the attackers had tried to assassinate Gaddafi when he was part of a motorcade but failed as they […]

The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

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[PDF file]: […] visiting the hotel more regularly to keep an eye on its running. He believed that they put something in his glass of sherry to…to what? Incapacitate him? Kill him? What? His wife had a sip of the sherry while Dr Johnson consumed the whole glass and this would explain their differing reactions. It’s a […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] offered a 500,000 USD bounty for his capture. In a bugged phone conversation that was later leaked to Ukrainian media, Kolomoisky also made a veiled threat to kill Tsaryov, couching it as a warning that Jewish business leaders had offered a million USD for Tsaryov’s assassination. Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2014 (see note […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] CIA from 1993-1995. As a quick google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Dwight Eisenhower about one of her alleged extramarital affairs with a left-wing activist – misinformation passed to him by Army Intelligence during World War II – to kill her hopes of being reappointed as a U.S. delegate to the United Nations.21 Hunting homosexuals Even if he could not touch Eleanor during the War, Hoover […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] offered a 500,000 USD bounty for his capture. In a bugged phone conversation that was later leaked to Ukrainian media, Kolomoisky also made a veiled threat to kill Tsaryov, couching it as a warning that Jewish business leaders had offered a million USD for Tsaryov’s assassination. Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2014 (see note […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]

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