Fire Magic: Hi-jack at Mogadishu

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] her down (after the publication of this book) and, unannounced, turned up at her front door. Last November she was extradited to Germany to face conspiracy to murder charges arising from the hijack, but not before Davies had reportedly sewn up a deal for a book and film in collaboration with her. According to […]

The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2001

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] to RFK). Reviewing Seymour Hersh’s The Dark Side of Camelot, he comments on p. 125: ‘Hersh does not take his book where it is logically headed…… the murder in Dallas, and what looks to be a mob killing. Too many lunatics have already checked in on that subject; and Hersh is wise to leave […]

NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

Daniele Ganser London: Frank Cass, 2005, £22.99, p/b   Country by country the author has assembled what has been made public about the Gladio network since it was revealed in 1990. There are even 3 pages on the Gladio network in Luxembourg. Much of this is appearing in English for the first time and it … Read more

Big Boys Rules

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] carried out by the SAS and other special units in Northern Ireland (and Gibralter). Without a state of war, setting an ambush is just a conspiracy to murder. No declaration of war means killings are legally problematic unless certain special circumstances pertain. Hence, finally, the endless, laughable courtroom accounts — usually at inquests — […]

Judge for Yourself: How many are innocent?

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] there is a real possibility that the Court of Appeal would not uphold the conviction. The book illustrates how wrongfully convicted prisoners who are ‘in denial of murder’ can end up serving many years over their tariff – and more than if they had been guilty. Stephen Downing, who served 28 years before being […]

Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

A great flood of books about Italian politics recently, and almost none of them willing to answer the question “Why Italy?” Why is Italy’s political culture so firmly based on conspiracy and secrecy? A part of that answer must be Italy’s role as the premier European site of the conflict between indigenous left-wing forces and … Read more

Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] reported in Lobster 4, efforts were being made by Lord Avebury (Eric Lubbock) and the Duke of Norfolk to clear Wallace of the ‘It’s A Knock Out’ murder. Mrs Anne Wallace met her husband Colin whilst she was assistant in Conmower intelligence office of MI6 in Belfast. She is now personal secretary to the […]

The DFS, Silvia Duran and the CIA-Mafia connection

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] back to the 1940s. The DFS and the Mexican drug traffic became increasingly intertwined after 1963; the last two DFS Chiefs were indicted, for smuggling and for murder; and the DFS itself was nominally closed down in the midst of Mexico’s 1985 drug scandals. (Jose Antonio Zorrilla, the ex-DFS chief arrested and indicted in […]

Malcolm Kennedy: complaint to Investigatory Powers Tribunal not upheld

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] pursuing miscarriage of justice cases. Speakers included Don Hale, the journalist who campaigned to clear the name of Stephen Downing, who served 27 years for the 1973 murder of Wendy Sewell in Bakewell; Kevin McMahon of Merseyside Against Injustice, who previously worked for Merseyside Police and later became a detective and Special Branch Officer; […]

Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] part in it). Central figure is mafia leader Ugurlu, with connections to Agca and the Bulgarian state. Article suggests there are two possible reasons for the Ipekci murder: 1) Ipekci was planning to expose some of the mafia’s activities; 2) mafia wanted to buy the paper and Ipekci was in the way. (The latter […]

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