The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Dan E. Moldea W.W. Norton, London and New York 1995 I didn’t notice this when it was first published and came across a remaindered copy. Unlike the JFK murder, this case is absolutely straightforward. The forensic evidence is quite clear and inarguable: Robert Kennedy was shot three times at point-blank range – i.e. a […]

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Plotting for Peace and War

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] the reactionary cabal inside his own country. The war against Hitler was conducted partly by military means: but it was also waged with Machiavellian cunning. Churchill k new that Tyler Kent, a coding clerk at the US Embassy in London, had stolen copies of his correspondence with Roosevelt. Had the details of Kent’s treachery […]

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The Intelligence Files: Today’s secrets, tomorrow’s scandals

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Olivier Schmidt Atlanta (USA): Clarity Press, 2005, $14.95, p/b www.bookmasters.com/clarity/currenttitles.htm   Here’s a new name to me, the publisher Clarity; and a familiar one, Olivier Schmidt. In the 1980s Schmidt was producing a very good newsletter in Paris, Intelligence and Parapolitics. This got expensive, professionalised and eventually went on-line for subscribers as Intelligence.(1) This […]

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Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] we both had concerns about John Ware. He had written articles or produced TV documentaries about subjects of which we both had some knowledge which we k new were wrong, but for which he had never had to apologise or make a public correction. In the first section I return to the Colin Wallace […]

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Lobster Issue 33: Contents

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

The first of three essays in this issue are about New Labour and its origins. I put mine first because of its general, context-setting nature. The subsequent essays, on the Successor Generation and the operations in the British Unions, deepen and thicken the section towards the end of the opening essay which discusses New […]

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Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] this is true or defensible. This is big stuff. James’ book is an unprecedented insider account of the military-commercial-intelligence network at the heart of the British state. Notes This was reviewed in the Sunday Telegraph, 7 January 96; James was profiled in Independent on Sunday, 18 June 1995. James is another disillusioned Tory. There […]

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The Washing Machine: how money laundering and terrorist financing soil us

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] of Justice where the names of James Callaghan, Oliver North and Manuel Noriega crop up with such regularity as they did in Bankrupt: The BCCI Fraud. Kochan’s new book is similarly revealing. He opens by throwing light on the way the Russian oligarchs – most of them equipped with Israeli passports, he tells us […]

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The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] was to weaken, or preferably confine to history, socialist or social democratic values of solidarity and collective action. They were intent upon the permanent establishment of a new market-driven, neo-liberal economic order based upon Thatcherite beliefs in individualism and the unquestioned merits of private and corporate capital enterprise. An important section of Milne’s work […]

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Korkala, Terpil and Ireland

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at an intimate little social gathering in the basement restaurant of the Wilner […]

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Our Friends in the North-East

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] long period of time. An examination of this seems appropriate. The notion that a highly organised cabal runs regional politics in parts of Northern England is hardly new. A considerable amount of print was once devoted to John Poulson, a big time architect in the 1960s, who bribed local politicians and officials to obtain […]

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