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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] British state had been referred to again. Atkinson referred to International Times at that time ‘operating out of an office near Charing Cross, the set-up had an agent of the Somoza family hanging around’. (6) And the smear worked. Within a week I had received a letter warning me about Larry O’Hara from a […]

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

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, […]

George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest … Read more

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] — and doubts about his credibility were immeasurably increased by the failure of his children to back up his alibi. Marita Lorenz, former lover of Fidel Castro-turned-CIA- agent, testified that she had been part of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy along with Hunt, another Watergate ‘plumber’ Frank Sturgis, and some Cubans. But her first-hand knowledge […]

Colin Wallace – an assessment

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] anyone not asleep at the wheel has taken for granted for years; some fragments on the MI5-MOD-Tory Party operations against CND; and one (conveniently dead) alleged MI5 agent, Harry Newton. Yet no journalist to my knowledge has ever got paranoid about her, seriously wondered if she was part of some wider operation. (I don’t […]

Conspiracy: Plots, Lies and Cover-ups

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Richard M Bennett London: Virgin Books, 2003 £20 hardback   This is 350 pages of summaries of political and historical conspiracies. It starts in 2330 BC but the first 2007 years take up only 84 pages. The content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: … Read more

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] probably be against the civilian population of large cities. It can be well imagined the degree of consternation, as well as fear and apprehension, that such an agent would produce upon a large urban population.'(6) Hamilton made a number of proposals for the elimination of large populations, among them ‘fission product aerosols to subject […]

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] ‘Libya: Plans to Overthrow Qadahfi in early 1996 are well advanced’. It describes a coup plot against Gadaffi and proves MI6 knowledge of the plot, via an agent codenamed Tunworth. Shayler had earlier claimed MI6 involvement in such a plot, and payments made by MI6 to Tunworth; Foreign Sec. Robin Cook had vigorously denied […]

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little more […]

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