Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] riot, JFK was listening to King’s oratory with a speechmaker’s ear, and murmuring: ‘That guy is really good.’ In Spring of 1964, a few months after JFK’s murder, Hoover shared with the shattered RFK selected recordings from bugs planted in MLK’s hotel rooms, which had at last captured decisive proof of King’s adulterous abandon. […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] night Wallace at first denied that he had seen Lewis but then admitted that they had met as stated in the diary. Wallace was originally charged with murder but the trial judge, Mr Justice Kilber-Brown, directed that the charge be withdrawn because of the weakness 73 of the prosecution case. The trial was repeatedly […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] this is not one way traffic – but this does not criminalise them. Russian cyber warriors are ‘criminals’; their Chinese equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] at the time that the same network had been killing people in Texas since 1951 (when Wallace received a five year suspended sentence for a first degree murder). In Estes’ version the JFK killing is merely one element in the wider scandal, the core of which were his secret payments to politicians, notably vice […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] carrying out assassinations, terrorism and coup-plotting. The ‘strategy of tension’ in Italy in the late 1960s and 70s, in which the right carried out acts of mass murder and terror which were then blamed on the left, was partly the work of Gladio. In Turkey the Gladio units slaughtered the left, trade unionists and […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] which there has been no shortage. It’s easy to see why. Files is a genuine gangster and a would-be killer (his 30-year sentence was for an attempted murder committed in 1991), and he presents a simple story that circumvents the bewildering forest of forensic, ballistic and eyewitness evidence relating to the case. An entirely […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] tours as soldiers or as television viewers. This was the daily violence on an unimaginable scale guided by numbing bureaucratic processes that seemed to reduce the mass murder to soporific tedium. It was the war that sent mainly African-Americans and poor whites to kill ‘gooks’ ostensibly to 5 The Geneva Agreements of 1954 ended […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] illegal detention. Niedermayer’s death created an appalling legacy. In June 1990 Niedermayer’s widow Ingeborg returned to Ireland and booked into a hotel at 1 The first was Murder Madness (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999). Greystones in Co Wicklow, in the Irish Republic. It would appear that she then walked into the sea fully clothed […]