Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 5 On things Italian, there was a very interesting ‘Diary’ by Tobias Jones in the London Review of Books, 8 March 2001, which discussed, inter alia, the murder of left-wing journalist Mauro de Mauro in 1970. Jones tells us that the study of the covert operations in Italy in the 1970s is now described […]

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 […]

Last Talons of the Eagle

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] of the Second World War, Smith and Kay (Putnam 1972) includes virtually all the information in Last Talons of the Eagle. See Tom Bower, Blind Eye to Murder – Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, a Pledge Betrayed (1981) and The Paperclip Conspiracy (1984) and Christopher Simpson, Blowback – America’s Recruitment of […]

Behind right-wing conspiracy theories

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] occult secret societies. The Hebrew Talisman links these fears to Mediaeval ideas that the Jews were a sinister force plotting against Christians by means such as ritual murder and mass poisoning. Where earlier conspiracy theorists had seen the plotting of the secret societies as consisting of traditional activities such as assassination and the fomenting […]

Sources. Publications etc

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] lecture by Peter Dale Scott on the global drug traffic and US intelligence; a long piece by Ralph Schoenman (there’s a blast from the past!) on the murder of Robert Kennedy, inter alia taking issue with Dan Moldea’s recent exculpation of Thane Cesar, everybody else’s candidate for the role of the actual assassin (see […]

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 […]

The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

With the decline of the revolutionary socialist Left the Right has turned to the anarchists for a law-and-order bogeyman – and a stick to beat the Left with. One journalist involved is Jamie Dettmer. Having worked for Tribune for a while, Dettmer migrated to the Sunday Telegraph (for whom his first article was an ‘expose’ … Read more

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Alien baloney In Nexus vol 6 no 2 is another dollop of what seems to me to be obvious disinformation about UFOs and the US government. Another batch of MJ-12 documents have surfaced in America, given to a researcher called Timothy Cooper by a (now conveniently dead) source. Nexus prints some largish chunks from them. … Read more

Re:

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, […]

Mind control update

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

Mind control update Writing about something you don’t really understand, it’s easy to make bad early decisions. It’s like being self-taught on an instrument and acquiring bad habits. In this case I began by naming this subject ‘ELF’, extremely low frequency, which was about all I picked up from my initial reading of the torrent … Read more

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