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 […]

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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 […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s … Read more

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Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted kidnaps and several undercover surveillance missions. One of these operations, in March 1974, is the beginning of the Stalker saga – an attempt by […]

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] a unique take on the ‘whodunnit’ aspect of the assassination, a synthesis of the left and right wing conspiracy theories: Oswald was involved in the conspiracy to murder the President; and he was an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists […]

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The Andropov Deception

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] member of the coterie now gathered around the bloody foreign policies of America’s resurgent right-wing. All of them, like Crozier, are apologists, directly or indirectly, for mass murder in the name of “freedom” and “democracy” in places like Chile, El Salvador and Guatemala. It is, of course, possible that Crozier is a wonderful chap, […]

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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; […]

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Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Mail and Daily Mirror – including the ‘Walter Mitty’ theme). The ‘line’ has been changed. At Wallace’s trial, in the effort to get him convicted of the murder of Jonathan Lewis via a ‘karate blow’ to the base of his nose, Wallace was portrayed as a dangerous killer/macho man. I believe that in 1987 […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 … Read more

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Shorts: James Rusbridger. Illuminati. Gordievsky. Cavendish

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] of clandestine sources. Rusbridger would have been amused to learn that since his death he has been reported to have been writing books on the Hilda Murrell murder (private correspondence), autoerotic techniques (Independent , 18 February), the Lusitania (Independent , 18 February) and the production of chemical weapons at Nancekuke in Cornwall (The West […]

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