SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] fatal fall from a window during the Lancaster House talks in London in 1979 might well have been just such an operation. Stiff was particularly eager to kill Joshua Nkomo and was continually perplexed by the refusal of the CI0 to authorise such an operation. The go-ahead was eventually given in early 1979. He […]

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The death of Diana: an update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] posted by Gary Stone to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – April 2000) New Zealand Press Association interview, ‘Richard Tomlinson talks about his ideas of a conspiracy to kill Princess Diana’, 31 August 1998 (Transcript – with comments posted on Sender, Berl & Sons website – ‘Final farewell analyses’ http://www.senderberl.com/farewell.html) Ibid. Mohamed Al Fayed believes […]

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Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown Rory Carroll London: Mudlark (HarperNonFiction), 2023, £20, h/b Simon Matthews It’s nearly 40 years since the IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher. Written by Rory Carroll, Ireland correspondent for The Guardian, this book seeks to establish what actually happened. In doing so it traces the career […]

The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

On 8 July the Foreign Minister, Robin Cook, announced that the Libyan Government accepted ‘general responsibility’ for the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher and normal diplomatic relations with Libya were being restored. The media reporting of this accepted the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) spin that it meant the Libyans have admitted killing Fletcher. The … Read more

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] turn-of-the-road gang in Ballysillan once more as the Protestant Action Force. To join this group, new recruits, who would be aged between 19 and 23, had to kill someone. Inevitably, these killings were sectarian. The PAF’s commitment to sectarian murder escalated with the Anglo-Irish Agreement and with the total failure of the Unionist politicians […]

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Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] solution for Northern Ireland than anything that they could have done themselves. There is no doubt in my mind that the Royal Ulster Constabulary had a shoot-to- kill policy. That has been successfully covered up, but it came close to exposure when Mr. John Stalker was set to investigate it. When it became clear […]

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Phoenix: Policing the Shadows, and, Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] seeking an accommodation with Sinn Fein and counter-terror was passing out of favour. Whereas under Thatcher, the SAS (‘her boys’) had what amounted to a license to kill PIRA volunteers, under John Major the license was revoked. After 1990 the Chief Constable had to personally approve any SAS deployment and such approval was not […]

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The JFK Assassination on film, televison and video

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

Introduction Greenwood Press in the USA have just published Anthony Frewin’s’ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography, 1963-1992 (ISBN 0-313-28982-4). The book is divided into 12 chapters covering such subjects as Oswald in New Orleans, Dealey Plaza (some 40 entries, no less), Dallas post-assassination, TV programs and compilations, documentaries, … Read more

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