Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
As Scott Van Wynsberghe has ‘outed’ himself as a transvestite let me ‘come out’ of the intellectual closet and admit that, like Sylvia Meagher, I also have some UFO books on my shelves. Over the last 20 years or so I also have acquired some books on ‘earth mysteries’ (though I never found a ley … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] the document was Lord Davidson (J. C. C. Davidson MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party);(16) Robin Bruce Lockhart claimed the affair and been organised by the SIS agent Sydney Reilly, the subject of a biography by Lockhard.(17) Gordon Brook-Shepherd pointed out that the Foreign Office historian hadn’t seen evidence he himself had seen while […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] taught other noted Marxists: Julian Bell, Maurice Cornforth, David Haden-Guest, John Cornford and Alister Watson. Wittgenstein was taught Russian by Fania Pascal, who was probably a Comintern agent and whose husband Roy, like Wittgenstein, lodged one summer with another active Communist, Maurice Dobb. Wittgenstein and Blunt both visited the Soviet Union in the summer […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] one finds a review of a pro-Warren Commission book, The Scavengers: Critics and the Warren Report, by Richard Warren Lewis and Lawrence Schiller. The reviewer, former FBI agent and Ramparts contributor, William Turner, is particularly annoyed (p. 163) over the way Lewis and Schiller take a cheap shot at Sylvia Meagher by pointing out […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] 1 Assassination Team’); and the role of James Miller, the mid-1970s version of Brian Nelson. Take a bow MI5, for penetrating the UDA completely, twice getting an agent into the role of UDA ‘intelligence officer’. Bruce, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, who had previously worked for over a decade at […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] number is 206426. It has never made any grants to the left that I can trace. Dulverton rates a couple of mentions in Brian Crozier’s memoirs Free Agent (HarperCollins, London, 1993). Crozier speaks highly of General Douglas Brown, manager of the trust in the late 1970s, who was able to facilitate contacts with the […]