Echelon

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] key words. They claim that ECHELON automatically analyses most e-mail messaging for ‘precursor’ data which assists intelligence agencies to determine targets. According to former Canadian Security Establishment agent Mike Frost, a voice recognition system called Oratory has been used for some years to intercept diplomatic calls. The report recommends a variety of measures for […]

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] Inside BOSS, South Africa’s Secret Police Gordon Winter (Penguin, London 1981) “BOSS assigned me to monitor the activities of Richard Gibson (exposed in 1969 as a CIA agent), who was a talented journalist then representing Negro Press International and ‘Tuesday’ magazine. I discovered that Mr Gibson, born in California in 1931, was an amazing […]

Right Woos Left; Populist Party, LaRouchian and other neo-fascist overtures to Progressives; and why they must be rejected

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Chip Berlet This 63-page essay describes a wide range of contacts between what in a British context would be described as right-wing conspiracy theorists and the left. Berlet documents a range of contacts between the far-right Liberty Lobby, followers of LaRouche, Bo Gritz and the Populist Party, the Christic Institute, Radio Free America and a … Read more

Feedback

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] come and go, with much less prominence, and very much less risk of accidents on take-off and landing. We are asked to accept that a VX nerve agent was used, with a C-130 Hercules simultaneously flying out of Dhahran to obliterate any traces of nerve agent with two five ton fuel-air explosive devices. Why […]

Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] on Astra notepaper – showing that a trio of British special forces were in Brussels the day before the Bull murder, accompanied by Astra director and SIS agent, Stephan Kock.(9) It was Kock who, having removed James as chair of Astra, began using it to do arms deals with the Iraqis – which had […]

A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] of its arms were given to Alpha 66, which was the biggest group in it, a few days before the assassination. Apropos of Oswald being a penetration agent and an informant, there was this odd Sheriff who made a report that he obviously wasn’t meant to that Oswald had been hanging around this 3128 […]

Beware the proven lawyer!

Book cover
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Vincent Bugliosi New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007 xlvi + 1612 pps. + CD-ROM End Notes and Source Notes (958 + 170 pps.). Illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95.   ‘Reclaiming History is important not just because it’s correct, though it is. It’s significant not just … Read more

Way out West: a conspiracy theory

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] ‘Proven Connection’. West’s view of Hollis as a Soviet mole is partly based on the possible connections with Claud Cockburn who he sees as being a ‘Comintern Agent’. The two certainly knew each other in their university days. It is the view of the anti-Hollis faction that during his interrogation in 1969, as part […]

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] Cause-funded Trade Union Centre for Education in Democratic Socialism in the mid-1970s; and that ‘Jack Hill’ and ‘David Williams’ were two pseudonyms of the same person, an agent for a Labour MP, now dead. But which one? Match me, Sydney! Vicky Woods in the Sunday Telegraph 30 November 1997: ‘I don’t understand why Jonathan […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] day of Kennedy’s killing.(12) His father never admitted to any involvement in the assassination, but did hint at some inside knowledge. He linked Lyndon Johnson with CIA agent Cord Meyer, who in turn was linked to a CIA black-ops specialist, David Morales. The latter was connected to – in Hunt’s words – the ‘French […]

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