Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] tell us that Eisenhower approved the U-2 mission. Did he? He certainly took responsibility for it once it had been revealed by the Soviets; but according to Fletcher Prouty, who was then one of the men in charge of the U-2 flights, Eisenhower expressly ordered the overflights to be halted in the run-up to […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] given concerning the death of Rudolf Hess.’ 5 The forensic pathologist Dr Iain West, who had conducted notable postmortems on Robert Maxwell, Jill Dando and PC Yvonne Fletcher, later warned Hugh Thomas that the British government were unlikely to release the results of any DNA comparison between the tissue from Berlin and the blood […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Cold War world which have shaped the visible, formal American politics and shows continuity of methods and some personnel. But this isn’t some ‘secret team’, to use Fletcher Prouty’s term. (And a sense that the concept of parapolitics encouraged ‘secret team’ notions is one of the reasons Scott abandoned it.) There are lots of […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] air defences were believed to be incapable of it: viz. defector Oswald obviously gave information which enabled them to do it.59 The late Air Force Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty claimed that the Gary Powers-piloted U-2 which was apparently shot down by Soviet air defences was sabotaged, to damage President Eisenhower’s attempt to cool the […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt to murder […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] by any of our major political parties. Such ideas are just beginning to be heard in the USA on the left fringe of the Democratic Party and eventually they will appear here.2 6 26 See for example Ian Fletcher, ‘ Thinking the Unthinkable: Could America Repeal NAFTA?’ truthout, Tuesday 20 April 2010, 126 Summer 2010