The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] and the rest of the secret state; and, when the whole stupid mess ended up in court, the late Alan Clark MP was unwilling to see MI6 agent and Matrix Churchill executive Paul Henderson wrongly convicted and blew the gaff – the occasion of his famous phrase ‘economical with the actualité’. Was Matrix Churchill […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] all the private material between Roosevelt and Churchill 1939/1940. Originally thought to be a Nazi spy, after 1945 the CIA considered him to have been a Soviet agent all along (not a contradiction during the Nazi-Soviet Pact). Aarons and Loftus (op. cit.) also say, p. 212, that, contemporaneously with this, whilst attached to a […]

Everything is going to change

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] a car whose registration was closed off by the FBI, was arrested by Chicago police who had strong intelligence connections. After Kennedy’s trip was cancelled, U.S. Treasury agent Abraham Bolden, who questioned the parallels with the situation in Dallas, was persecuted and eventually jailed. Meanwhile, two snipers had been arrested, and three more sought, […]

Israel’s Edwin Wilson

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] high technology found its way to Israel through Harari’s network. Harari’s main contact in the US is a figure often mentioned in the Contra investigations, former CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, who ran the secret Contra resupply effort from Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Rodriguez’s close colleague on the Contra operation, the CIA’s Donald Gregg, […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro-Nazi during the […]

A (very) brief history of Christian politics in the United States

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

In its own communications, evangelical Christianity exists in a delirious present but it has a rich and recoverable history. Evangelical religion can and should be explained in part in terms of the response of the millions of the faithful to the experience of modernity. But while secular intellectuals sometimes see it simply as a mechanism … Read more

Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] motives behind the crash, but admitted that some ‘abnormal driving’ had taken place that night), a paramedic supervisor, and a US Special Forces veteran and CIA contract agent. The latter, not surprisingly, requested anonymity and is referred to throughout the book as ‘Stealth’ The meetings with him took place, rather melodramatically, at the Avebury […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

The Economic League Labour Research (April 1988) have produced a written version of the essential content of the two World in Action programmes on it, with current personnel and the names of some 350 British companies which have funded the EL since 1972. In line with the thesis suggested by White in his essay (see … Read more

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

1. Getting even more ugly I confess: I have given up buying Searchlight. There just isn’t anything that can be believed in it. In any case, other people send me the good bits – if ‘good’ is the right word. In June’s Searchlight this paragraph appeared; ‘Seasoned political observers in Northern Ireland say that the … Read more

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