Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] our understanding of the Holocaust is brought home in Gerhard Steinberg’s opening essay. Here he argues that the history of the early days of the Nazi mass murder of Russian Jews has been transformed by intelligence materials revealing the extent of Order Police involvement in the massacres that accompanied Operation Barbarossa. Whereas it had […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] be allowed to rest. While it is absolutely clear that the loyalist campaign was a great help to the British, Davies goes further. He argues that the murder gangs were actually being directed by British intelligence; in effect, the British were carrying out a campaign of assassination by proxy. Nelson, a member of the […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] taken of the event. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King’s in the 1960s and worked closely with him in some of his campaigns. After King’s murder he drifted away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, ‘asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had been responsible for the murder.’ The fact that he expected a straight answer shows how distraught he was.(4) One point worth considering here is why it is that the United States […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Pynchon novel. Butman and Sprinkle write in their Introduction, ‘What we, the authors, have done is research dozens and dozens of books on the conspiracy, plot , murder and evident cover-up. We then picked five of what we felt were the most informative and interesting of those books and reviewed them in a form […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] ‘Mac’ Wallace and LBJ thread which has been slowly insinuating itself into the JFK assassination research community. On p.40 Armstrong gives half a page to the 1951 murder by ‘Mac’ Wallace of a former boyfriend of LBJ’s sister. On p.656 Armstrong cites the Sample-Collum book, The Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 David Cesarani London: William Heinemann, 2009, h/b, £20 On 6 May 1947 a British undercover squad, under the command of Major Roy Farran, picked up sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz, a young Zionist activist. He was taken away for ‘interrogation’. After an hour […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Office press release, 7 December 2005) () Murrell update Andrew George had another day in court on 9 June when his appeal against his conviction of the murder of Hilda Murrell was rejected by the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.() However a number of interesting points did find their way into Lord Justice Moses’ […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The best published account of the period I know is in Political Murder in Northern Ireland (Martin Dillon and Dennis Lehane, Penguin 1973), especially chapter 12. My best estimate is that the UCA was indeed a leftish organisation at […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Jews again report a rise in antisemitism. I read these books after hearing Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. He described the murder of his Polish grandmother by a German soldier and then said: ‘My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in […]
