Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] name the ‘man closely linked to intelligence circles’? The late G.K. Young is unlikely to object. Why not name Duncan Campbell, the person MI5 asked him to murder? Why recount the fascist activities and intelligence connections of ‘Lutz’ and ‘the Major’ without telling us that they are Column 88 leader Les Vaughan and Ian […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new perspective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their names may be familiar: Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson. The question revealed for us all […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] Matta himself remained untouchable until 1988, after Congressional support for the Contras was terminated altogether.(15) By this time Matta Ballesteros was sought by the DEA for the murder in Mexico of DEA agent Enrique Camarena. Two of his associates and co-defendants in that murder case, Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Felix Gallardo of the […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Misc Pat Finucane Centre www.serve.com/pfc/index.html Pat Finucane, a human rights lawyer in N. Ireland, was murdered in 1989 by the UDA ‘One of those involved with his murder, Brian Nelson, was working for the Force Research Unit, an undercover unit of British Military Intelligence.’ Includes info on the Finucane case; the FRU and their […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] is scanty, is essential. Instead of documentation we get stuff like this (taken from p69 after opening the book at random). The emphases are mine. Discussing the murder of one Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] Palme (10)Was Palme the victim of a destabilisation attempt in the mid-70’s like fellow Socialist Willi Brandt? Is there a connection to the most plausible of Paline murder theories – action by a right-wing faction within the Swedish intelligence service, SAPO? In 1973 three journalists alleged the existence of such a group with the […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] of one man, then that was no big deal. In war, thousands upon thousands of innocent people go to the wall … Nobody wanted to frustrate Stalker’s murder investigation. Murder is murder. Mitigating circumstances for killing have to be justified in court. We’re all on the same side on that subject. But what Stalker […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] and refugees bitter for revenge against the ‘Christians’ who had driven them from their homes in the Caucasus and elsewhere. These were the men responsible for the murder, rape and pillage that characterised this particular horror. There can no longer be any serious doubt about the origins of the Armenian genocide, and Akcam has […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] that Litvinenko contaminated himself, probably through involvement in an illegal nuclear smuggling operation (polonium 210 being an improbable – expensive, unreliable and dangerous – choice as a murder weapon). Epstein is suspicious of the British authorities’ actions and contrasts them with those of their Russian equivalents who opened their files to him.(13) In the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
Rodney Stich Diablo Western Press, USA, 1994 The first thing to be said is that this is a huge (650 pages), fascinating book; and I recommend it. It is really three stories interwoven. The first section describes the author’s experience of trying to alert the American civil aviation industry, then the politicians and then the … Read more