Neither Confirm Nor Deny: British Intelligence, Lawless Agent Running and the Suppression of Truth by John Ware

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] as anti-Semitic.5 He feels no need to apologise for that, either. Personally, I’ve distrusted John Ware since I watched the edition of Panorama titled ‘A Licence to Murder – Part Two’ (broadcast 23rd June 2002). In one section, Ware was seen in Beijing, China, having travelled there to ‘confront’ a former commanding officer of […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

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. […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[…] 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 Wallace was originally charged with murder but the trial judge, Mr Justice Kilber-Brown, directed that the charge be withdrawn because of the weakness 73 of the prosecution case.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 […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] for fear of alienating what it perceived as the host (Protestant) population. In the earliest mainstream account of these Loyalist killings, Martin Dillon and Denis Lehane’s Political Murder in Northern Ireland (1973), the absence of prosecutions for these murders was attributed to the police force, the RUC, being overwhelmed by the number of deaths. […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] rest of the former Mrs Liggett’s claims, although it may cast some doubt on her reliability in general.2 In 1974 John Liggett was convicted of the attempted murder of Mrs Dorothy Peck, whom he had bludgeoned with a hammer before – apparently assuming Mrs Peck was dead – attempting to destroy the crime scene […]

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 […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the 62-year old Canadian-born engineer Gerald Bull, shot dead outside the door of his Brussels flat on March 22, 1990, has been variously attributed to […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

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 […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

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 […]

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