JFK: The two Oswalds. One Hell of a Gamble

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] There’s more. The authors quote File 90486, as follows: ‘The KGB now had some details as to which members of the American right had been behind the murder. In late November a highly regarded Polish intelligence source, an American businessman who owned a series of companies, informed the Poles that three wealthy Texas oil […]

Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] years but this takes the biscuit. A sense of this is conveyed by what must be one of the longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ […]

Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] Chickasaw Indian who claims to have been on the sixth floor of the TSBD ‘helping out’ the assassins when JFK was hit. And who was behind the murder? Step forward LBJ. Collom and Sample take Factor at face value and attempt to bolster his claims. Belongs on the shelf next to Henry Hurt’s championing […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] apparently afoot to film Jon King and John Beveridge’s book, Princess Diana: the hidden evidence (New York: SPI Books, 2002). Richard Palmer, ‘Film tells of Diana “ murder”‘, The Express, 11 February 2006. For an idea of what to expect see the review in Lobster 43. An unofficial transcript of the interview can be […]

Blinded by the light: Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] the upsurge of political violence in Italy, starting with the (fascist imputed) Milan bank bombing in 1969, and two key traumatic episodes — the capture and ultimate murder of Christian Democrat (DC) party leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades (BR) in 1978, and the Bologna railway station bombing in 1980 when 85 died, […]

Northern Ireland Act 1974

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] being made extensively here in Britain, in republican circles and on Irish radio and television. A particularly horrifying incident that many hon. Members will remember was the murder of three members of the Miami showband – completely innocent musicians with no political affiliations whatsoever. It took place in the midst of the cease-fire that […]

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] these charges. However, in the words of Griffin, ‘since it was not required at this stage…. he did not have it to hand’.(6) In the document Attempted Murder (AM hereafter), discussed below, Griffin justified this lack of evidence by reference to the Constitution then in force. However, those who disagreed felt that he had […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley … Read more

The Man from the FRU

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

Suffer the innocents? The Stevens inquiry into Britain’s state assassination policy in Northern Ireland in the 1980s began in September 1989. The police officers who signed up for it didn’t think it would take long to do. ‘We thought it was going to be a fairly routine investigation. We didn’t expect to find that there … Read more

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