Miscellaneous reviews

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 […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] as such in Leese’s 1936 publication, Our Jewish Aristocracy: A Tale of Contamination. He was a persistent advocate of the Jewish ‘blood libel’ of Jewish ritual child murder, pushing this particular antiSemitic slander as late as 1953. (p. 44) He became disillusioned with the Nazi regime at the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, a […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] somewhat, being chatty, full of slang and written in ‘Americanised’ English. It also includes dramatised scenes with imagined dialogue. The Palme assassination is probably the biggest unsolved murder of our time. Or, if one is of the view that the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations remain unsolved, one of a half-dozen or so […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

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 […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Wallace at first denied that he had seen Lewis but then admitted that they had met as 20 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 Wallace was originally charged with murder but the trial judge, Mr Justice Kilber-Brown, directed that the charge be withdrawn because of the weakness of the prosecution case. The trial was repeatedly punctuated […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

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 […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] scale dumb’. (p. 107) Leaving aside the ‘been a bit sexist’ and ‘perceived to be a bit racist’, this is a remarkable development. Then comes George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Coming after and overlapping with the disgust at Trump’s response to Covid, Sopel shows dismay turning to anger – not only at […]

The Mossad Spy It’s not what you’ve done it’s who you are… the transgender spy

Lobster Issue

[…] had been a fireworks manufacturer since the 1940s, this is just a very striking coincidence. 5 See ‘The Story of Project Babylon, British Spooks, Illegal Arms Deals, Murder And A Judicial State Conspiracy’ at or and . 6 The report used to be on-line but is apparently no longer available. A version was released […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] overall objective of defeating the ‘fascist’ west during the Cold War, the Stasi assisted and funded numerous international terrorist organisations. The Stasi itself was not above committing murder from time to time. Its repressive and brutal conduct moved even Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal to remark that, in terms of mistreating Germany’s own citizens, the post-war […]

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