Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America (Book review)

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] had simultaneously spent tens of millions of pounds preaching racial tolerance and cultural diversity while stuffing the ovens. Building on the courageous (but largely ignored) investigation by Senator John Kerry’s terrorism and narcotics subcommittee into the contra-cocaine-CIA connections, the authors pile up layer after layer of further evidence of those links. The result is […]

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Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the Third Reich. Such was the nature of its gyrations that Yockey could work both as a speech writer with a ‘considerable relationship’ to the viscerally anti-Communist Senator Joe McCarthy (and the network behind him which was seeking to invalidate the Nuremberg Trials), and, only months beforehand, as a courier for Czech intelligence. When […]

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Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] conceal any conspiracy. And as one reviewer pointed out, Congressman Gerald R. Ford would hardly have held his tongue for the sake of the Democratic administration, and Senator Russell would have had every political interest in exposing any misdeeds on the part of Chief Justice Warren. A conspirator moreover would hardly choose a location […]

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Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like … Read more

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important … Read more

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] may even have brought about, the end of the cold war and the shadowy skullduggery that conflict entailed. Author’s footnote to history: This writer was told by Senator Carl Levin (circa 1984) that there would be no congressional hearing into the probability Captain Chun embarked on his mission and 240 innocent passengers perished on […]

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JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

JFK: The two Oswalds Anthony Frewin Those of you who missed the two articles by John Armstrong on ‘the two Oswalds’ in recent issues of Probe magazine, don’t despair: Armstrong has rewritten and considerably enlarged them as a two volume DTP work. Armstrong’s finding may be the most significant research breakthrough in years. But we’re … Read more

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Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] for the developing eurofascist/ultra right-wing axis could be interesting. Western Goals (UK): Who’s Who Thomas J. Bergen — Vice President (listed once, in October 1989). US citizen, Senator Joe McCarthy Foundation, A.B.N.; article in European Dawn. Sir John Biggs-Davison — Now deceased. Early Western Goals (UK) leaflets claimed his support, though he never became […]

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The Committee

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

Sean McPhilemy Roberts Rinehart, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1998, $24.95 Sean McPhilemy was the producer of a Channel Four documentary, ‘The Committee’, shown in 1991, which made a series of startling allegations about collusion between the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in the killing of Catholics. The programme — which I … Read more

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] evidence of fraud in the 2004 American Presidential election continues to grow. And never mind all the stuff from websites like blackbox: we now have reports from Senator Conyer at , and from no less a body than the US government’s General Accounting Office, supporting most of the major charges. A report of the […]

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