Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a […]

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Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] the US London embassy who leaked to Ramsay all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, […]

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Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] legendary. We are told Montesinos ‘breached army regulations’ prior to 1977; we are not told he was put on trial by the leftist Velasco regime as a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super-secret videotapes […]

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Tail piece

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] is a schizophrenic and her tales are delusions. Dr. Sue Arrigo denies this, calls it a smear and claims to have been drugged and tortured by the CIA. This one, as the old cliché has it, is going to run and run. Notes You can read more about her involvement in the debate at […]

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America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] eating American shit and swearing that it’s ice-cream. Notes The piece of electronic circuitry which was the core of the physical evidence was apparently planted by the CIA. See Lobster 50 p.31. Evidence presented by the prosecution as being from the suitcase containing the bomb was apparently from the lab tests of an identical […]

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The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] evidence – the key piece dating back to 1998 – which show that the whodunit aspect of the case has been solved: LBJ had Kennedy killed to save his political career and keep himself out of jail. It wasn’t the mob, or the CIA, or the anti-Castro Cubans; it was LBJ, a bent Texas politician.

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You Are Being Lied To: the Disinformation guide to media distortion, historical whitewashes and cultural myths

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the argument: if there are no discrepancies, it simply shows that the lie has been imposed effectively.) There is some good stuff in here: Preston Peet on CIA drug-running, Barry Chamish on the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and Cletus Nelson on the Oklahoma City bomb are all well worth reading, as are pieces by […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government […]

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A review of the (bad) reviews of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] long and largely sympathetic feature. (Donald MacIntyre got very worked up about accusations that Tony Crosland could stoop to dirty politics and may well have been a CIA ‘agent of influence’.) In response to the Ian McIntyre review I wrote a letter which included this. ‘I would have taken Mr McIntyre’s analysis more seriously […]

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Thinking about the Falklands

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[…] important, factors were coming into play. The war coincided with “increasing emphasis placed on the strategic seabed resources by the Department of Defense,” and also by the CIA. (See Foreign Affairs Summer 1982) With new publicised scares about the massive Soviet navy there were obviously compelling reasons for putting together a SATO pact. But […]

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