Beware the proven lawyer!

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy Vincent Bugliosi New York & London: W. W. Norton, 2007 xlvi + 1612 pps. + CD-ROM End Notes and Source Notes (958 + 170 pps.). Illustrations, bibliography, index, $49.95.   ‘Reclaiming History is important not just because it’s correct, though it is. It’s significant not just … Read more

Editorially

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] months for the second half of a story may be irritating) please let us know for future reference. Steve Dorril/Robin Ramsay The Lobster is a journal/newsletter about intelligence, parapolitics, state structures and so forth. (The scope of our interests should be obvious from this issue.) We welcome articles, notes, corrections of our errors and […]

Britain’s Role in Human Nuclear Experiments: what’s been did and what’s been hid

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] Colonel John Alexander, who is now NATO advisor on non-lethal weapons. As was reported in the previous Lobster 28, Alexander has consulted with both British and American intelligence agencies since Armen’s interest in him. Armen is undeterred by this harassment and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material […]

Euro-bound? Or: the same river twice

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] In the Sunday Times of 5 December 1999 Stephen Grey reported: Tony Blair is under pressure from European leaders to support the creation of a ‘federalised’ EU intelligence service to help manage world crises. The move, proposed by Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, and President Jacques Chirac of France, is seen as the first […]

New Labour, New Atlanticism: US and Tory intervention in the unions since the 1970s

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] that he ‘has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding’. Conclusion These are just some of the right-wing and intelligence efforts to suborn the trade union and Labour Party Right in recent decades. So, should anyone take notice of any of the above? Radical trade unionists […]

The Road to Jerusalem: Glubb Pasha, Palestine and the Jews

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Benny Morris London: I. B Tauris, 2002, £24.50, h/b   In report after report on the major media we hear about or see pictures of ‘refugee camps’ in Israel – and no-one ever explains from where the refugees came. Perhaps editors think we know already. Benny Morris is an Israeli historian who became well known … Read more

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] who will be sent to work as Resident Operators and Control Agents in foreign countries will amount to about 230.’ Considerate of them to tell the counter- intelligence services of the NATO alliance, is it not? A decade later we find the same theme in J. Bernard Hutton’s 1972 The Subverters of Liberty (p. […]

M. Fennema: “International networks of banks and industry”

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

Books International networks of banks and industry M. Fennema (Martinus Nijhoff, PO Box 2501, CN The Hague, Netherlands: Distribution in Europe by Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Distribution for US and Canada by Kluwer Boston Inc. 190 Old Derby St., Higham, MA 02043, USA).1982 Very little academic work … Read more

Ultimate Sacrifice

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] – or in Chicago or Tampa – there is no evidence. The case they do make is that after the event Robert Kennedy and the entire military- intelligence complex in the US had a major interest in not revealing anything about the several operations that were going on against Castro. The Kennedy ‘coup’ plan […]

Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the low-level functionary portrayed in his famous televised confession. Before becoming a journalist, Bob Woodward, of Woodward and Bernstein, had been a U.S. Navy ‘briefer’ with considerable intelligence connections, among them Alexander Haig. ‘Deep Throat’ was a device to conceal the fact that Haig was leaking to Woodward. (Or: Haig was ‘Deep Throat’.)’ One […]

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