The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken a significant lurch forward. In the Australian magazine New Dawn number 27 (GPO Box 3126FF, Melbourne, 3001), Vialls has a long analysis […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

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 […]

Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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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

Briefly

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] OX4 1BG. UK 44 (0) 1865 203661 http://www.undercurrents.org Project Freedom Network is the name of the first group in this country campaigning against what it calls ‘remote mind control weapons’. I don’t know anything about this group, its personnel or its leader, George Farquhar, other than this: according to a letter from Mr Farquhar, […]

Decoding Edward Jay Epstein’s ‘LEGEND’

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

As Steve Dorril shows in his essay on Permindex, the lack of a satisfactory resolution to the assassination of Kennedy allowed Soviet intelligence to use the event to their own ends. The French also had a go with the pseudonymous book Farewell America which made public considerable information about the CIA’s activities while pretending to … Read more

Secret Underground Cities, and, Secret Nuclear Bunkers

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Secret Underground Cities: an account of some of Britain’s subterranean defence, factory and storage sites in the Second World War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999, £14.95 (sb) Secret Nuclear Bunkers: the passive defence of the western world during the Cold War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2002, £19.95 (hb)   … Read more

The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] with the resistance in Scandinavia. Reflecting on the Pinay Circle and its apparent role as European coordinator of media manipulation, several other avenues for investigation come to mind. The UK: the role of Arthur ‘Dickie’ Franks. Before the publication of the Langemann papers in 1982, Franks’ only known connection to the Wilson story was […]

What Price National Security?

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

Conference Report by Jane Affleck On November 10 2000 the Freedom Forum’s European Centre in London, in association with Article 19, Index on Censorship and Liberty, hosted a debate on National Security. (1) Three panels spoke on The Nature of National Security, British State Security in Northern Ireland, and The Internet – Circumventing Censorship? The … Read more

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more

Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] a Philip Agee of the 1990s; and I for one am still unclear as to why he blew the whistle in the way he did. But never mind: thanks to Shayler’s information we have an insider account of MI5’s recent activities. The authors have compiled a quick sketch of MI5’s history up to the […]

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