Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] from Noel Buxton, 7 Mar 1940. Aberconway held many directorships in the iron, steel and shipbuilding industries. In 1939 he had been, for example, chairman of Firth Brown Steel and of Westland, and a director of the National Provincial Bank. Information from Professor R.M. Griffiths (University of London). Professor Griffiths possesses the membership book […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
Do they talk like this? At < www.lewrockwell.com/cummings/cummings29.html > there is a very interesting piece by Richard Cummings about the CIA and publishing; agents and operations are named. At the top of the article is this quote. ‘We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] For more on John Paul II’s policies, see Paul Johnson, Zizola and the highly controversial (and apparently falsified) work by Gronowicz. For his activities in Poland, see Brown (ed) and Hanson pp.197-233. Herman and Brodhead pp. 241-4. Like its ‘Bulgarian connection’ counterpart, it consists mainly of suppositions, hypothesised linkages and circumstantial evidence. This notion […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99 Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM WORLD FEATURES 80’s SECURITY […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Kevin McClure John Brown Publishing, London, 1996, £9.99 Subtitled ‘Doomsday Cults, Hopeless Predictions, Visions and Warning Signs How the World Will End’, McClure gives us a guided tour through some of the wackier people out there on the religious and political fringes, currently and historically, written in his beguilingly simple style. This is not […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] specialist Robert Fisk, continues to pose challenges to Blair on foreign policy while remaining generally supportive of New Labour on the home front. Independent columnist Yasmin Alibhai- Brown, under the headline ‘Watch out for these sinister ideologues’ (October 27, 2003), fiercely attacked British neo-conservatives, echoing Curtis’s charge of duplicity being at the heart of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] to become Mrs Hasnat Khan and live in suburbia as his wife’. A child was also part of her plan and she was convinced that ‘her “ brown baby” would help improve relations between Muslims and Christians.’ Diana was apparently so besotted with Khan that she considered getting herself pregnant with his child in […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] wrong. For Bernie Hawthorn read Bernie Houghton; for Guy Parker read Guy Pauker; for J. Lansdowne read Jay Lovestone; for Roy Gudson read Roy Godson; for Erwin Brown read Irving Brown; for Tom Braydon read Tom Braden; for Allan Wilks read Owen Wilkes. The first of these transcripts is at http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cia/cia_oz/cia_oz1.htm The McGuffin Very […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] DISSATISFIED LOCKHEED EMPLOYEE.THE CODE REPRODUCED BY THE MAGAZINE LISTS M POMPIDOU AS COSMOS, MR WILSON AS POINTER, AND HERR ERHARD AS HALIBUT FORMER BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTER GEORGE BROWN FIGURES AS POWDER. * * * On 10th June 1976, not long after Wilson’s resignation, this intriguing telex rattled out of the Reuter news service. Although […]