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Lobster Issue

[…] father, RFK Sr.). What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] history of strange behaviour by leading LibDems and members of its pre1988 Liberal Party.28 After the bizarre Liberal Party world was revealed by the 1979 Jeremy Thorpe murder trial – the activities of Peter Bessell and the hired gunman among others – the Liberals relied heavily on Cyril Smith as the party’s popular public […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Trinidad in 1972 by accomplices of Michael de Freitas. De Freitas had a long history of criminal activity and violence and was convicted and hung for the murder of his cousin in a separate but related case. There is some speculation, not substantiated, that he was eliminated as part of the FBI COINTELPRO programme […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

Also noticed by Robin Ramsay and Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] not Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]

The Super-rich Shall Inherit the Earth by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]

Hilda Murrell and the FOIA

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Information request. WhatDoTheyKnow also publishes and archives requests and responses, building a massive archive of information.’ 1 For those not familiar with the crime that was the murder of Hilda Murrell, a decent briefing can be obtained from an article, ‘Who really killed Hilda Murrell’, that Michael Mansfield QC wrote for the Guardian: 
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