Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] slogan – or mission statement – ‘all conspiracy – no theory’; and that is on the front cover of Popular Paranoia, along with: ‘Conspiracy! UFOs! True Crime! Mind Control! Parapolitics!’; a pulp crime scene painting, sprawling woman, man with gun in hand; and the title, in pulp magazine typeface, Popular Paranoia. Is Thomas telling […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] things would work, then he would try them and see. Failure would be down to the patient; success was his alone. What was his theory of the mind? (Though theory might dignify and elevate his thinking, such as it was.) It was quite simple and, shorn of psychiatric and psychoanalytic baggage, it is revealed […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] martyrdom? Some insiders think so.’ 17 Powers widened the scope of this: ‘. . . behind these suspicions, never resolved, lay a still darker fear in the mind of Robert Kennedy: that he himself, if any of the four had been established as the guilty party, could not have escaped at least some measure […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from one […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] lost source as the Q-Diary for convenience.5 Enter Epstein Under what circumstances did the Q-Diary get redrafted into the manuscript we know today? This question exercised the mind of assassination researcher Edward Jay Epstein in the 1970s as he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of […]

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