Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] on Stone’s movie JFK, it seemed worth reproducing again. Our concern. From the day of President Kennedy’s assassination, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time […]

Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

One of the recurring sub-themes of the literature on intelligence systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public knew about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of … Read more

Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] signs of deliberate disinformation.(7) To know Bill Clinton and die? There is an extraordinary 1994 pamphlet by the editor of something called The Wall Street Underground, titled Murder, Bank Fraud, Drugs and Sex, that links 21 deaths to Clinton and Arkansas.(8) My faith in the author, Nicholas A. Guarino, is not heightened by the […]

Good-bye Tony

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Lobster’s writers say farewell (in approximately 250 words or less) In alphabetical order: Richard Alexander: Good riddance. Dan Atkinson: Prediction is a mug’s game, but here is one forecast for the early, troubled years of the next decade: Tony Blair’s ten years in power will be widely seen as a golden age of cheap consumer … Read more

Spook PR

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

Public relations, more usually referred to these days as ‘communications’, is a method used by organisations to explain themselves or issues, or sell a product/message/strategy. To create/manipulate their audiences’ various external environments so that these can prevail, sophisticated organisations firstly recognise competitor or negative PR; secondly, they counter it. The means by which they do … Read more

The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] the spot when Gandhi was killed. The author claims that the two men were not on the consulate staff and left India on the night of the murder. (Report in Gulf Times 19 September 1998) Staggering on Still unwilling to acknowledge that the entire New Labour project is a turkey, the New Statesman remains […]

Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more

Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] In fact the Nexus articles were Vialls’ fictionalised account of his experience of being a mind control victim; that in New Dawn was Vialls’ analysis of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. None of them contain any of Vialls political opinions; indeed, we have no idea what Vialls’ political opinions are. Neither, manifestly, does […]

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had happened but […]

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