Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] inadequate it really was.’ Former ambassador Craig Murray also commented on the publication of this letter on his blog: ‘It is five years since I published in Murder in Samarkand and this FCO insider account, given to me in 2002 while I was Ambassador in Tashkent: “You’re wondering why we signed up to it? […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Hayward denied any knowledge of this and was later awarded £50,000 in libel damages after the Sunday Telegraph accused him of being the ‘paymaster’ in the alleged murder conspiracy.28 After Thorpe was replaced by David Steel in 1976 (and particularly once the Lib-Lab pact was in force), Hayward divorced himself completely from any involvement […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] – reminding potential readers that there was still much to enjoy in the rural US, such as vinyl record stores 12 Thorpe was cleared of conspiracy to murder a former homosexual lover. No charges for this offence were ever brought against any third party. and welcome revival of Southern food.13 Yes: but does this […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] to all the information we now have showing that Oswald was working for US intelligence agencies ‘How the CIA came to doubt the official story of JFK’s murder’ at or . 1 1 2 Still thinking about Dallas But the omission is only deliberate if Shenon and Sabato know the material linking Oswald to […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. * new * How viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot’? In August, 21 year-old Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Blair to play the role of George W. Bush’s loyal flunky and so generated this ‘blowback’. But see Nick Must’s ‘How viable was the ‘ISIS-inspired Theresa May murder plot?’ at and the case of Lewis Ludlow, ‘the Oxford Street terror plotter’ at . Thanks to Nick Must for these examples. 20 See for example, […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] He’s impressed by what I’ve told him about my own LSD experiences and what other people have told him. He wants to try it himself.’ Meyer’s 1964 murder remains unsolved. 4 Michael Rainey ran a clothes shop, Hung on You, at 430 Kings Road SW10, described by music journalist Nik Cohn as ‘simultaneously the […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] War, Stone describes the 1948 death of the Czech politician Jan Masaryk, who was found lying on the pavement beneath the small bathroom window of his flat. Murder? Suicide? Stone offers this explanation of the still unexplained death: ‘Perhaps the affair can be explained by drugs. LSD, which had been discovered in Switzerland at […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Bureau employees doing what Shanklin had done would have, at best, been terminated. At worst, that employee could have been prosecuted for destruction of documents in a murder investigation, i.e. the Oswald letter and its tie-in to the Kennedy assassination. Of Shanklin, Mr Adams notes: ‘The man was scared of his own shadow’. (p. […]