Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] piles of peasant bodies were growing. There are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author’s claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Osborne is by John Kowalski, ‘The Dual Life of Albert Osborne,’ that can be read here: 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby- JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was […]

Last Second in Dallas, by Josiah Thompson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] forty years for David Lifton’s follow up to Best Evidence?2 Where’s that got to? Last Second is part memoir, with Thompson describing his early involvement in the JFK assassination, viewing the Zapruder film while working with Life magazine, the writing of Six Seconds in Dallas, and how it wove in and out of his […]

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[…] seen an Israelis-dunnit explanation of Dallas which was worth taking seriously but Guyénot’s version, nearly 10,000 words and thoroughly documented, deserves a look. The thesis is that JFK was killed because he was a threat to the Israelis’ nuclear programme. They had a reactor at Dimona and JFK was making vague noises about getting […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] USA’s post-WW2 empire, complicates the study of American foreign policy (or would if academics and journalists could bring themselves to read it); and the work of the JFK researchers has produced almost unmanageable complexity. But then Blum and the better end of the Kennedy buffs aren’t offering conspiracy theories so much as theories about […]

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[…] that a former member of the US Secret Service, Paul Landis, has written a book in which he says that he found a bullet in the car JFK was travelling in when he was shot.2 And thus Landis has detonated the official Warren Commission verdict on the shooting. This is significant, albeit 60 years […]

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[…] stoop, and big class ring, he looked very distinctive to me.25 24 Gregory C. Lavin, Chasing Ed: Was Major General Edward G. Lansdale the Mastermind of the JFK Assassination?, p. 176 in the Kindle version. 25 8 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t […]

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[…] March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On 20 NB Neither of the apps I use to shorten URLs would work with this one of Murray’s. 21 7 Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,22 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon reportedly said: […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr Strangelove of the whole shebang, Dr Sidney Gottlieb. Like his associates, Gottlieb saw his work – […]

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[…] Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with Richard Nixon, about the JFK assassination, after Nixon’s resignation. Nixon said: I […]

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