Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] for example contains this sequence of articles: a piece about Gerald Posner’s Case Closed; a piece called ‘Secret Service Masers Kill and Make Whores’ about implants and mind control programmes of the US government, which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more
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 […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] I might take this as a claim that Britain’s security and intelligence institutions have been involved in assassinations (the attempts to get Nasser or Lumumba spring to mind). Paget’s reply to Fayed’s assertion is: ‘It is important to note in the Stevens (Northern Ireland) Report that the term “agents” is used to refer to […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
John Carter. Feral House, Portland (USA), 1999. Available in the UK from Counter Productions, P0 Box 556, London SE5 ORL , £15.99 plus £1.50p pp. The March Fortean Times launched this in some style, aping the book’s 1950s SF cover and giving it a respectful five page review. With the film rights sold and preparations … Read more
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 […]