The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] blackmail-suicide exercise against MLK,4 in which tapes of (married) Dr King with other women were sent to the Kings’ address with poison pen letters telling MLK to kill himself or be exposed. October 17, 1963 Assistant FBI director Alan Belmont 5 wrote to FBI associate-director Clyde Tolson (Hoover’s lifelong companion, and alleged lover). Belmont […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did have on Khan before 7/7, it is only if you believe that he […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of the later payments, made at Thorpe’s request for ‘election expenses’, were considered by the Police to have been used to pay the hitman who tried to kill Thorpe’s former gay lover Norman Scott. Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] “cold war” fought throughout the 1980s in which rogue elements in the government, military and secret services seemed to have free rein to distort facts and even kill opposition voices under the camouflage of black propaganda’. (p. 1) Well, yes, something like that, even if that is oddly expressed. But while the author’s thesis […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot’? In August, 21 year-old Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 […]

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