The Plots Against the President, by Sally Denton

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]

The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] in which the US military and intelligence are thoroughly integrated, a system in which a really radical script simply wouldn’t get made. So who would bother to kill the writer when a word in the right ear would get the project dropped or modified? The answer to this may be that a criminal conspiracy […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] a senior CIA officer at the time, head of the Agency’s Soviet division when Frank Olson was killed.2 4 Is this a big enough set of hints to encourage readers within Soviet intelligence to believe that Olson had been deliberately driven to kill himself as a result of a successful US mind-control experiment? 23 24

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