Official and Confidential:The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Of course it wasn’t anything resembling a ‘war’ at all. Even a very Kennedy-phile account such as that in chapter two of Victor Navasky’s Kennedy Justice (Atheneum, New York, 1971) makes it clear that ‘campaign’ or ‘drive’ is certainly a better term than ‘war’ which suggests a scale and commitment which is inappropriate. (As […]

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The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] is being anti-semitic. This is considered in a very good article in the US magazine The Nation 2 February 2004, by Brian Klug, ‘The Myth of the New Anti-Semitism’, in which Klug reviews four recent American books which attempt to argue that line. 5 There is a series of reports by Patrick Martin on […]

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Book bargain of the year

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

UK readers should note that remaindered around September was a big collection of essays (500 plus pages) by the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the […]

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The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] than $50,000. Unfortunately for Holihan the June 1983 election intervened and Thatcher cut short her US visit following the Williamsburg summit meeting. ANON. * * * The New York Times obtained transcripts of conversations between Charles Z. Wick, Director of the US Information Agency, and James A. Baker, White House Chief of Staff. (International […]

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Letter from Fred Holroyd to The Guardian

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] sent from Fred Holroyd on May 13th 1987 Dear sir, It comes as no surprise that Mrs Thatcher over reacted to the media attempting to discover the real facts of the Gibraltar shootings. Her attitude is vulnerable to close scrutiny, especially in the two areas of SAS operational deployment and the ethics of soldiering. […]

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Lobster Issue 19: Contents

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Lobster receives no subsidy other than the occasional generosity of its readers. COST 9, 10, 13 and 14 are £1.25 each (UK); $3.00 (US/Canada); £2.00 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) Others are £2.25 each (UK); $4.50 (US/Canada); £3.50 (Europe, Australia, New Zealand) The Special Issue is £5.50 each (UK); $10.00 (US/Canada); £6.50 (Europe, Australia, New […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] liaison committee on June 18, Tony Blair declared that democracy and freedom are ‘universal values of the human spirit and always will be.’ Even if I k new what ‘the human spirit’ meant, this is manifestly falsified by the slaughter-strewn history of the 20th century. A spook by an other name In the New […]

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Spooks and the House of Commons

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le Cercle UK […]

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Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] the book has had wonderful reviews. The exceptions are the Guardian, for whom Clive Ponting wrote a very odd, almost evasive review (2 June 89); and the New Statesman and Society (21 July 89) in which Duncan Campbell tried to undermine Wallace and denigrate the book -presumably because it was a story he had […]

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KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] out his otherwise over simple conclusions. It is remarkable that a book as good as that written by Bryan Clough should only appear through a minor publisher. Notes There is a theory that Kent had begun working for the Soviets in 1938 in Moscow and – this being the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact […]

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