The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] example of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is hard to imagine. The Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of Great Britain’s self-proclaimed eminent conspiracy theorists, decided to emulate the radical anti-CIA Professor Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley), wl1om they admired. 100 Tl1ey did so by ptiblishing a small […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]

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[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] far the most dynamic part of the 21 June Report is a lengthy editorial, covering a page and a half of A4 paper, denouncing the ‘Communist world conspiracy’. As one might expect, this diatribe is full of hot words and extravagant claims, and focuses upon the ‘peaceful coexistence’ policy promoted by Soviet premier Nikita […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn was a financial […]

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[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

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[PDF file]: […] ‘a Royal’ too: the Jacobite claimant to the UK throne. 13 Her husband, the Duke, died in 1930. He had owned and financed The Patriot, an anti-semitic conspiracy theory journal promoting the theories of Nesta Webster. 14 10 improperly. He simply moved with people in the know and reported what they said, with shrewd […]

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[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] account of Oswald at . 3 material linking Oswald to US intelligence agencies; and it is possible that they dismiss all that kind of information as ‘ conspiracy theories’ not worth their attention and are simply unaware of it. Even if they are familiar with it, Shenon is a former New York Times journalist […]

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