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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] that he was ‘…convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that could not be suicide,’ Baker claimed that ‘…medical evidence does not support it and David Kelly’s state of mind and personality suggests otherwise.’ He questioned the cause of death (a haemorrhage caused by cuts to the ulnar artery in the wrist), pointing out that ‘….…such […]

A guided democracy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

A guided democracy The following appeared in the Daily Telegraph 23 June 2003. ‘Edward Heath created a secret government propaganda unit to persuade the British people to accept the Common Market. Civil servants were engaged in a dirty tricks department of the Foreign Office to cover up the threat to sovereignty and provide rapid rebuttal … Read more

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

Maggie, Maggie, Maggie Giles Scott-Smith,(1) who wrote about the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Lobster 36 and 38, has written a very interesting study of Margaret Thatcher’s first visit to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the … Read more

Enemies of the state

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] to discredit an individual. Millions of pounds are being spent trying to ruin the reputations of individuals in the UK. The obvious other examples which spring to mind are: Colin Wallace — framed on a manslaughter charge then the victim of a disinformation campaign by state sources. Dr. Hugh Thomas — on whom the […]

The Anglo-American Establishment From Rhodes To Cliveden

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Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] a kind of bible. Here was the proof, the academically respectable proof, of the great conspiracy. It may not have been quite the conspiracy they had in mind, but it was a conspiracy none the less. But apart from them, the only people who seem to have taken Quigley on board have been Shoup […]

Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Media

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex-Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections to Arkansas and […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] do we know the caller was referring to the assassination? We don’t. It is difficult, however, not to conclude it was the assassination the caller had in mind, particularly when one considers the timing of the call – twenty-five minutes before the shooting. Could there have been another event on that day intended? I […]

Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Annie Machon Lewes (East Sussex): Book Guild, 2005, h/b, £17.95   It is hard to ‘see’ this book because a lot of the material, especially in the first half, is familiar, half-remembered from the press reporting of the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or […]

New Labour, new fascism?

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] I have left each quote unidentified except by a number. The reader may thus speculate on who said or wrote what. (Readers seeking clues should bear in mind that Mosley’s comments were made in the context of the Depression and the existence of continental Fascist powers). The quotes can be identified by using the […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] from the meta-group, with passports from Venezuela, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Germany. Between them they allegedly enjoyed excellent relations with: 1) Ayman al-Zawahiri, the acknowledged master mind of 9/11 and senior mentor to Osama bin Laden. 2) Soviet military intelligence. 3) the FARC, the Colombian revolutionary group that has become increasingly involved in […]

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