Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is known about this difficult subject – Whittaker has been dealing with […]

An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), offers unique perspectives based on his own experiences in the Pentagon. And never mind that no one else offered to reprint Prouty’s book. Berlet’s point is that Prouty should not have given his good name to Liberty Lobby. And once […]

Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] William Joseph Bryan, by an Onassis middleman.( ) Bryan, who was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Las Vegas, is a likely candidate for the role Sirhan’s mind control Svengali.() Hamshari, targeted by Mossad in December 1972 and later killed on orders from PLO intelligence chief, Abu Iyad, for misappropriating PLO funds – notably […]

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] describe terrorist conduct, including the beheading of hostages, is ‘Armed Propaganda’ (AP). This could backfire and seems vaery like a typically dated, crude attempt at ineffective Anglo-US mind control: ‘the Allies’ are equally adept at AP, albeit of a different type. ‘This Week’, BBC TV, 23 September 2004. 15 Financial Terrorists: An example could […]

Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] 30, 1994, Aguilar called Humes and Boswell to get their side of the story. Dr. Humes confirmed that he had spoken to Posner, but denied changing his mind about the skull wound, which he has always said was low. But here’s the kicker: not only does Dr. Boswell also continues to say that the […]

Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] this derives from a traditional (and healthy) American disdain for those who put on airs. A word for them in current mid-westese is ‘latte-drinkers’. (‘Frasier’ comes to mind.) But it has gone beyond that now. Kansans despise all urban east- and west-coasters; liberals; intellectuals; vegetarians (Kansas grows a lot of meat); Volvo drivers; effete […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] CIA documents recently released about the coup in Chile. See Scott Newton’s ‘Historical Notes’ in this issue. Good initially thought the documents were real, eventually changed his mind and is quoted in Jim Marrs’ Alien Agenda (p. 117) as believing they are a fake but contain some genuine information! At this stage in the […]

Splinter Factor update

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

When I commented on the lack of supporting material for the Operation Splinter Factor thesis (in issue 22), I somehow managed to omit the account of it in William Blum’s The CIA: a forgotten history (Zed, London 1986) pp. 59-61. But that is taken entirely from Stewart Steven’s book and his sources. To the latter’s … Read more

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] description of events point their own moral: from the failed Baltic operations, through the Iranian coup, into the hi-jacking of European culture – ‘the Battle for Picasso’s Mind’ – and its recycling as a psy-ops project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. The notion that Britain could ‘punch above her weight’, due to the […]

The Labour Finance and Industry Group: a memoir

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] of social and political changes that they have neither understood nor wanted to understand. It has a web site at . As you read this, bear in mind that this is a historical memoir of a particular period in time, from around 1991 to around 1998 at the latest. The LFIG should not be […]

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