[…] media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch series. (Discussed in Lobster 20) Like most of his comments on that programme, this just isn’t true. Most media stars who die […]
[PDF file]: A comment on Simon Matthews’ ‘The Dungavel Handicap: Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941’ Scott Newton Simon Matthews has written a very interesting piece about the Rudolf Hess affair of May 1941 in this issue of Lobster,1 but there are a couple of comments that I would like to add to his account. First, […]
[…] who would have been prepared to consider serving a collaborationist government in Britain in 1940 or later. It is also more credible than the list carried by Hess when he landed in May 1941, and much bandied about since.(12) Also: if the Right Club really were nothing more than a bunch of cranks why […]
Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more
[…] reserves estimated at 3.5 billion barrels……..’ Holdings of the AIOC were as follows: BP 34.1%; TPAO 6.7%; Itochu 3.9%; Statoil 8.6%; Lukoil 10%; SOCAR (Azerb.) 10%; Delta- Hess 2.7%; Pennzoil 5.6%; Exxon 8%; Unocal 10.3%…..(3) At the end of September 1998, Azerbaijan began the privatization of its first major energy enterprise, the Baku gas […]
[…] energy Direct electrodes stimulation: it has long been known that direct stimulation of the brain with electrodes will produce artifical reactions dependent upon the region stimulated. Walter Hess, a Swiss physiologist and Nobel Prize winner, was the first to pioneer the implantation of electric wires in animal brains in order to record electrical activities. […]
[…] “special relationship” between the U.S., Britain and the dominions after 1945.’ (20) There have been some odd moments in the history of this vast Anglophile network. Rudolph Hess flew to Britain in 1941 with a list of people he should try and see to arrange a peace. Top of the list was a group […]
[…] very superior example of the genre. In fiction form, this is what the Hugh Thomas network actually believe to be true (but cannot yet prove) concerning Rudolph Hess and the doppelganger imprisoned in Spandau. In other words, this is the most complete version yet of the ‘peace plots’ circa 1940/1. Kippax interweaves the 1940/1 […]
[…] the history of how that fairly singular event (and others) came about. There have been some odd moments in the history of this vast Anglophile network. Rudolph Hess flew to Britain in 1941 with a list of people he should try and see to arrange a peace. Top of the list was a group […]
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on … Read more
