Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] was a fraud. He revealed nothing that couldn’t have been gathered from existing books and articles. He was teasing his readers, beckoning them with as yet unspoken secret knowledge, and none of that existed. The opening page of Chapter One has this: ‘Accounts of her childhood vary. The primary source I have for the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] but withdrew them once a shooting war began. But fear of a request from Jordan and/or of Nasser blackmailing the UK drove Eden on. Having reached a secret agreement with France and the UK (24 Codenamed Operation Fat Fucker by the CIA. After his abrupt departure, King Faroukh’s private and extensive collection of pornography […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] investigation and an account of the investigation; a written version of a documentary film. And what they found is really scary stuff. CBW programs are the dirty secret of post-war states. The Soviets, the Americans learned from a defector in 1989, had a monster – and maybe the Russians still do, though officially they […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] he might have what we now call Alzheimer’s disease (from which his father had suffered).1 This is too prosaic for some and they keep looking for the secret scandal which they know must be the real explanation for Wilson’s departure. The Times gave us the reminiscences of a barrister, Sir Desmond de Silva, who, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a citizen of Liechtenstein, a flight to London was certainly feasible. 8 See Andrew Rosthorn, ‘What Did They Know And When?’, Tribune, 27 July 2012; and ‘Top Secret at Queens’, Yorkshire Ridings Magazine, summer 2013, pp. 122-125. Rosthorn’s story has also been published as an epilogue on pp. 448-58 of Jan Needle’s novel Death […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] torments Kissinger with that ‘does that bother you?’ The printed page just does not convey it. But of course quite a bit of Nixon’s activities were supposedly secret. Surely a cuntocracy is dependent on a vast hidden propaganda apparatus? But such techniques of control are merely the basic methods by which an individual or […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] where angels and dupes fear to tread. 1 See my ‘Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book’ in this issue. 2 David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing (New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1967) p. xiii. Still, after all these years, the best book on the subject. The author jumps about like a pimp […]