Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Books Alan Turing: the enigma of intelligence Andrew Hughes (Unwin 1985) If you have a chance, read Alan Turing: the enigma of intelligence by Andrew Hughes (Unwin 1985). Now in paperback, Hughes’ excellent biography rescues from near obscurity a true eccentric genius. It is of interest to us because of Turing’s essential work on the … Read more

The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] could sit easily with a eugenicist agenda for a pure race. Most extreme among those on the organic movement’s fringes were Ludovici, who recommended incest and mass murder, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, who thought that painless lethal chambers would help rid the white races of their ‘degenerates’. Ludovici condemned the organicists for concentrating on […]

Miscellaneous: Manning Clark. L. Ron Hubbard Jnr.

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] of independence in 1965,’ said the Guardian,1 January 1996, reporting official papers released under 30-year rule. The ‘Brabant Killers’ story – the campaign of motiveless robberies and murder conducted in Belgium between 1982 and 1985, widely assumed to be an attempt to destabilise the government – revisited in the Sunday Telegraph, 26 November 1995. […]

Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the press and ‘Project Truth’

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] the US media, which ran with the Watergate story and all its ramifications in the 1970s, ended up, less than a decade later, becoming accomplices to the murder of American nuns in Central America. Parry’s account of the major media’s timidity under corporate and political pressure may turn out to be the more important […]

Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] it appears to have been loyal to the elected government. The police force, however, is widely held to be corrupt and is probably implicated in the recent murder of the island’s senior Red Cross representative, the person who negotiated the release of hostages after the Speight coup, and was thought to have learned too […]

St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] the creative accounting of their bankers, Sindona and Calvi.) The final part of the plan was for Gelli to foment the use of political violence – bombings, murder and kidnappings – and then, when he had created sufficient chaos, make use of propaganda designed to prepare Italians psychologically for the new era of Fascism. […]

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service – murder and mayhem: a historical document’, Crime, Law and Social Change, 38 (2) (September 2002) pp. 89-136. Frank J. Cilluffo, Ronald A. Marks, and George C. Salmoiraghi, […]

Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter … Read more

The JFK Assassination on film, televison and video

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] is the only documentary that includes footage of Oswald being driven into the Dallas PD headquarters after his arrest. The Oswald-Ruby Slaying. Three versions of the Oswald murder appear to have been filmed. These are: KRLD-TV, Dallas: b&w video. KRLD-TV, Dallas: 16min b&w. Cameraman: George Phenix. WBAP-TV, Fort Worth: 16min b&w Cameraman: J. Jamison. […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] funeral at a time when the king’s principally Palestinian country were unimpressed by HMG. A special operations throwback It came as no surprise that the plot to murder Libya’s President – a typical ‘special operations’ throwback, brought to public notice by former MI5 Officer David Shayler, for which he has paid a despicable price […]

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