Trying to kill Nasser

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] the Foreign Secretary, expressly opposed such action. According to Chapman Pincher (Their Trade is Treachery p 206), in collaboration with leaders of the SAS, a plan to kill Nasser, his bodyguards, and anyone else who got in the way, was put together. They were going to use cannisters of poison gas . Eden vetoed […]

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Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] was running the UDA’s assassins against the IRA – and successfully, too. In effect, in the late 1980s the British state decided that while they could not kill the IRA openly (the late Alan Clark MP’s solution: let the SAS loose), they could get the Prods to do it for them. A case can […]

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Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

From April to late June 1992, I spent some three months in a Dutch refugee camp, OC Zeewolde. I had applied for political asylum. The Dutch authorities had agreed immediately, to fully process the application. I gave them no reason for my application. The Bosnian war was beginning and the Dutch reception centres for refugees … Read more

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Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

This continues where Lobster 14‘s reprint of the piece from Tribune stopped. It was unfortunate that the debate over the status of Colin Wallace and his allegations really got going just as Lobster 14 went to the printer. Below is what followed. 27th August 1987. Colin Wallace letter in response to the John Ware article … Read more

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

  Wishing and hoping I met Tony Benn only once, while researching Smear! He’s a lovely man with a big blind spot about the politics of the early 1980s in general and the Militant Tendency in particular. Here’s Benn in the course of an appreciation of Arthur Scargill on his standing down as President of […]

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SNAFU in Dallas

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] Long-range shooting is intrinsically unreliable and generally means that the assassins can’t get close enough to do it any other way. (Assuming that the intention was to kill; it might just have been to fire at Kennedy; the death a bonus.) This was true, for example, of some of the many attempts by the […]

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Orders to Kill: the Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the story. Orders to Kill is an account of his involvement in the continuing investigation from 1978 to the present day. Pepper provides a participant’s view of all the major events […]

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Right meets Left

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions were killed by a different brutal dictatorship. It is obviously all right, even laudable, to kill Ukrainians, Cambodians, Chinese, etc, These extracts from Turner’s letter takes us further into the issues which Cohen’s encounter with Robert Henderson raise. Take Turner’s comment, ‘To […]

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‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

‘A Most Extraordinary Case’ Malcolm Kennedy says his telephones, post and e-mail are being interfered with. His attempts to seek answers have left him in a bureaucratic maze. Background ‘A most extraordinary case’ said Michael Mansfield QC, describing the events at Hammersmith Police Station on the night of December 23/24 1990. Two men – Patrick … Read more

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Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] man. “The squads consisted largely of ex-soldiers rather than experienced police or intelligence personnel”, and their overall commander used them “to exploit existing intelligence to capture or kill insurgents themselves”. (5) In contemporary Northern Ireland the SAS and E4A, the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s Mobile Support Unit have had a similar role. (6) The Palestine […]

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