NIck on Macintyre

Lobster Issue

[…] in the killing – of the terrorists. Make no mistake, I am not excusing the crime those hostage takers had clearly committed. They had, themselves, committed unconscionable murder. The response from the SAS team can also be described as ferocious. The five terrorists who died were shot an average of 16 times each; and […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] little harsh on this).3 Even so, as Cox describes Kennedy’s conflicts with most of the major lobbies in America, from the mafia to US Steel, his eventual murder feels unsurprising. He does not suggest a solution. He asks (p. 284): ‘Was there an assassination conspiracy, as Bertrand Russell and his Committee feared?….’ This is […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] MI6, and it seems likely he visited Porton Down. 3 The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind’, a review of H. P. Albarelli Jr’s A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, in Lobster 59, Summer 2010. Further, Sargant’s ward sister recalls him telling tales about ‘cloak-and-dagger exploits’. […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the time.) Having worked on this issue for a long time, it’s hard for me to see it; but from Anthony Frewin’s essay on the Frank Olsen murder of the 1950s, through Simon Matthews’ piece on the US involvement in the ‘pirate’ radio stations of the 1960s, Robert Henderson’s piece on Enron accounting, John […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] disinformation by omission. But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the 1 ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 2 John Newman’s very dry, analytical work on CIA documents, for example, in his Oswald and the CIA. At another level Chauncey Holt’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Oswald after his return from the Soviet Union.40 This makes no difference to my conclusions in that essay but still . . . 2) Rob Reiner The murder of film director Rob Reiner and his wife got much mainstream media attention, in none which did I see any reference to his work in the […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] with the Secret Service at the door. While Harvey didn’t look like James Bond, he was just as lethal, and has been considered a suspect in the murder of JFK. After attending a party at Philby’s apartment in Washington, Harvey also was one of the first to claim that Philby and Burgess were Soviet […]

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