The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead (Sheridan Square Publications, New York, 1986) When the Turkish Grey Wolves hold rallies they howl collectively. So, at times, do journalists of the ‘free press’. In 1979 Edward Herman wrote After the Cataclysm with Noam Chomsky in which they shredded Western … Read more

RE:

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] to the jury do appear to follow a tradition of exculpating the establishment at all costs. In the Jeremy Thorpe trial, Mr Justice Cantley described alleged potential murder victim Norman Scott as follows: ‘He is a fraud. He is a sponger. He is a whiner. He is a parasite. But, of course, he could […]

Miscellaneous Publications

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

Miscellaneous Publications Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones’, The CIA and American Democracy, (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989, price not stated) is, with Blum’s The CIA: a Forgotten History, the best single volume on the CIA. Of particular interest is the author’s account of the political system’s response to the revelations of CIA archives in the … Read more

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] 23 by Christina Lamb, ‘Diplomatic Correspondent’ – a title once held by Coughlin – which claimed that Saddam Hussein had sent belly dancing assassins to London to murder his opponents there. Lamb sourced this to ‘a Foreign Office official’.(4)   Where are they now? Skimming through the e-newsletter NewsmakingNews of 18 September I had […]

Digging in the Oyston archive

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] property developer Bill Harrison and a private detective Christopher More, who has since been jailed for assisting his son to flee from Britain and escape from a murder hunt. The plotters successfully conspired to steal the income tax records of their political opponents, a crime not previously recorded in the two hundred year history […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Jane Affleck Here are a few more websites, focusing chiefly on the issue of electronic privacy which is currently being debated both in the U.S. and Europe. Thanks to those who have sent comments, and thanks for contributions to: Terry Hanstock, Ian Tresman and Tony Hollick. Comments and contributions are welcome: I can be contacted … Read more

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] and one of the co-founders of the Social Democratic Party. An odd, occasional visitor to these circles was William Whitelaw, who became Margaret Thatcher’s fixer after the murder of Airey Neave. Through the influence of his wife, Dee, a close friend of Susan Crosland, Ayer was once again politically active in the sixties but […]

Lobster Issue 51: Contents

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] of MI6 in the assassination of Princess Diana? That famous lefty rag, The Daily Express. Looking at Terry Hanstock’s account of the recent developments in the Di murder mystery below, I am almost persuaded that I should be taking this seriously. At any rate, I am wondering why I don’t….. Contributors to this issue […]

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] getting ‘beaten up and possibly hospitalised or perhaps his home is trashed. Here in Ulster the consequences can be fatal. Searchlight could be setting up people for murder.’ September’s Searchlight returned to the story. ‘When Searchlight referred to Charlie using a Catholic teacher from London to convey messages to a man called Kerr in […]

Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] it even when it was wrong, the UK became complicit in a strategy that could only be used on terms that must now result in the mass murder of civilians. Iran has now become the case study. The Iranian revolutionary right has crushed the liberal opposition precisely because it is associated with the West, […]

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