The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] tatty plastic cover. Inside it were names, addresses and national insurance numbers. Then they found a card index. It very much resembled the way a police local intelligence filing system might work. It was organised alphabetically and each card related to a name in the folder. There were files on 3,213 construction workers. Clancy […]

Inside the AARB, Volume IV by Douglas P. Horne

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] is still the minority one, diametrically opposed to that of the 1 Inside the AARB, Volume IV What seems incontestable is Horne’s finding that the National Photo Intelligence Center in Washington received the Zapruder film from a CIA lab at Kodak in Rochester, and that the anonymous ‘Bill Smith’ who delivered it said it […]

The Conversation

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the same time as Starmer was trotting out his five ‘mission statements’ in February, I was engaged in a discussion with a friend about the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, ChatGPT. ChatGPT goes far beyond the now familiar ‘virtual assistants’ and chatbots one finds on many corporate websites, which rarely if ever answer your […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] that X lied, or that the CIA screwed the inquiry, might not imply involvement in the assassination. Shaw and Ferrie had all manner of connections to US intelligence that they did not want to discuss; and Garrison’s inquiry was heading off into areas the CIA did not want examined: to name the obvious two, […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of assassins based in Mexico, delicious though the idea is. 18 The single most striking element in his story is his account of being asked by his intelligence handlers (he says DIA but I’m sure it was CIA) to run a safe house in the circus he was working in, on the road – […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

Lobster Issue

[…] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Florida, a Miami Police Department informant had reported that Milteer had been making ominous remarks about someone shooting Kennedy during a forthcoming motorcade in Miami.1 Miami PD’s intelligence unit duly passed this worrying information to the US Secret Service and, since Milteer lived in Georgia, to the Atlanta offices of the FBI. In the […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: ‘Damn you Keir Starmer’ Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza Peter Oborne London: OR Books, 2025, £11.99, p/b John Newsinger This is a tremendously powerful book, written with both a determined forensic intensity and a sometimes barely controlled outrage. Oborne, one feels, sometimes just cannot believe what is going on, the enormity of […]

Hilda Murrell and the FOIA

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] holds any information which falls within scope of your request.’ However . . . exemption 23(5) can only be used when the information relates to fourteen specified intelligence, security and national policing bodies5 – only five of which were in existence at the time of Hilda Murrell’s murder: those five being MI5, MI6, GCHQ, […]

Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] recovered, we do know from Reynolds that Morton recommended that Britain provide assistance in the training of Sri Lankan special forces and in training and reorganising their intelligence apparatus. As Miller points out, this involved providing assistance to a regime whose troops and police were routinely torturing and killing Tamil prisoners. Morton returned to […]

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