Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ Kennedy assassination initiates will glimpse […]

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Paul Foot 1938 – 2004

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Footy and me I did two things with Paul Foot. Over two days, he, Colin Wallace and I copy-edited the manuscript of what became Foot’s Who Framed Colin Wallace? Foot was impressively objective about his own writing, accepting editing suggestions on their merits. During a lunch break he said to me: ‘What’s a bright guy … Read more

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Obituaries: Kim Besly & Anthony Verney

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] enough to have been in the way of something – accidental victims of some experiment. It says a great deal about this benighted country, and the sheer stupidity of so many of its secret servants that rather than just admit this, apologise, and offer restitution, the British state went into full-scale cover-up and harassment mode.

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The CIA and the Marshall Planks

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] for example, he talks of the CIA in its ‘great, early days ….. manned by the flower of American youth…. something almost entirely new in history, a secret intelligence service that was dedicated to doing good in the world by stealth.’ Ah, the self-confidence (and self-delusion) in ‘doing good in the world by stealth’. […]

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Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Colin to ascertain what exactly his allegations were. In my own case, how very odd that no-one in authority will explain why it was agreed at a secret meeting in Whitehall, chaired by Mr Tony Stephens, that Colin and I were telling the truth, and that contingency plans were made to prevent our allegations […]

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US General Accounting Office Reports

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. … Read more

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Storming teacups! Or: Steve Dorril, Lobster and me

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] 14 Nil. 15 One article. 16 Two articles 17 One and a bit articles. 18 Part of the cover image. Produced text of Who’s Who of British Secret State. 19 Three articles and cover image. 20 Nil. 21 Nil. 22 Book review, article, list of spooks. 23 Two articles. 24 Nil. Of the 13 […]

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Notes from the Underground, part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] year in which, according to Rose, ‘Class War played a leading role’.(6) Without doubt, NF members did turn up on ‘Stop the City’ activities, and made no secret of the fact.(7) However, they did not make themselves known at the time, and in any event the variety of anarchist organising the events was of […]

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Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, national security and the creation of a modern UFO myth

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Bennewitz, eventually wrote the script for an episode of The X Files! The author thinks that this disinformation began as a means of misdirecting Bennewitz away from secret US Air Force operations; but I wonder. The thing to do with an inquisitive businessman who makes his living selling electronic kit to the US government […]

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A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] reader that this is not about a conspiracy. Or rather it’s about lots of them: ‘Yes, they plan and organise with each other, but there is no secret conspiracy operating behind the visible front. The visible front does just what it says on the tin – it aims to run the world.’ (p. 81) […]

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