Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] as innocent as he claims. And – the final straw – how could he be said to be ‘unlawfully detained’ when he detained himself? (In the Ecuadorian embassy in London, to avoid extradition.) Well, my longish piece of about a year ago explains pretty clearly, I think, how and why.1 I’ve little to add […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop Garrick Alder Abstract As the title suggests, this essay exposes a psychological operation that began in 1963, the effects of which are still in play more than fifty years later. The present work is in three sections. The first section is a parapolitical portrait of the prominent American conservative Clare Boothe Luce, […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] The Havana Syndrome Referenced elsewhere in these pages, I find the Havana Syndrome most intriguing. That name, however, is a misnomer as there have been complaints by embassy staff in locations other than the Cuban capital. And the diplomats affected have not been solely from the United States either, as one might think from […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very text itself is suspect, containing several anachronisms (references to US embassy staff not in situ on the dates of the diary entries in question, for example) and other details that just don’t ring true at all. Perhaps […]

finklestein 1976

Lobster Issue

[…] a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. . . .in the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

1976 anmd all that

Lobster Issue

[…] government. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] news originally surfaced in the Vichy press but was then confirmed by King Carol of Romania, who was resident in Seville at the time, via the British Embassy in Lisbon. This tale was picked up, either from Foreign Office contacts or independent sources by the 17 well-informed Labour MP Sidney Silverman,42 who claimed in […]

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