Miscellany

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] book for at least 5 years, and five years ago the ‘apertura’ to the left wouldn’t have meant anything to me. In the light of ex BOSS agent Gordon Winter’s remark that BOSS had the Kennedy assassination marked down to ‘a General named Walters’ (see Lobster 7), this latest fragment about Walters is of […]

Eye Spy!

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] We are told Montesinos ‘breached army regulations’ prior to 1977; we are not told he was put on trial by the leftist Velasco regime as a CIA agent. EYE SPY! reports that, ‘ironically, the camera that recorded was one of his own’: there is no speculation as to how the spymaster’s super-secret videotapes reached […]

The aliens on the grassy knoll

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

Smearing Wallace and Holroyd

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] staff we would be interested to hear from you. * * * In his Tribune attack on me (item 10 above) Ware says I called him an agent of the state in a letter sent to The Listener. Actually I didn’t, and have no reason to think this. Ware’s behaviour can be explained quite […]

The New Spies: Exploring the Frontiers of Espionage

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD’s disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do with […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

Book Reviews Gerry Healey: A Revolutionary Life Corinna Lotz and Paul Feldman Lupus Books, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR, £15.00 Ken Livingstone MP was given a large chunk of a page of the Guardian (tabloid section p. 13, September 6, 1994) to write a review of this book. The bit that caught my eye … Read more

Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

Robert Whiting, New York: Pantheon Books, 1999. ISBN 0-679-41976-4.   Sergeant Nick Zappetti first arrived in Japan during the late summer of 1945, one of the tens of thousands of US occupation troops who landed there after V-J Day. Unlike most of the others, Zappetti immediately went into business for himself and set up a … Read more

Here, there and everywhere

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] of this book there are many raves; but continue on down through the second page and you come to a very destructive review by a former FBI agent, Delbert Hahn, who was interviewed by Hopsicker. Before buying this read that. Notes If the Zelig reference escapes you try On getaway styles, I prefer the […]

Korkala, Terpil and Ireland

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] brother who had heard that his sister was the subject of police enquiries concerning a crashed BMW car which belonged to the wife of a fugitive ex-CIA agent. (This came about when Marie McCarthy and Gerrit used Marilyn Terpil’s car to visit McCarthy’s family in Cappoquin, County Waterford, in January 1983.) Magill claims that […]

Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination

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 […]

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