Policing the Future

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] not descend upon the working class ghetto in order to find the person who had stolen Mrs. Smith’s wages (it was probably Mr. Smith anyway!). Apart from murder, the violence of which is always a serious threat to the State (15), the police only went into working class areas in search of those who […]

PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the Christian population and other groups are airbrushed. In addition, it has excelled at ‘bouncing responsibility’: For example Iraqis, it claims, were to blame for the shameful murder of Shia cleric Abd al-Majid Khu’i whose memory has since been traduced because he accepted CIA money. The truth is that this vital, courageous man returned […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] began running interference for MI5 at the Wapping gulag. I wrote to Mr Greenslade pointing out these earlier events but to date have received no reply. The murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher Joe Vialls’ exploration of this murder – which he thinks he committed, while under some kind of mind control – has taken […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] was interviewed on the Alec Jones radio programme (3) where he stated: ‘David was murdered on the 17th. On Saturday the 19th, within 48 hours of the murder, I was contacted by a British intelligence officer who told me he’d been murdered. That didn’t take me by surprise, I was suspicious of the suicide […]

Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] first discussed the same deals (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/6/87, from Washington Post Wire). Shortly before his death in July 1986 – which many believe to have been murder (Executive Intelligence Review, August 1, 1986, p. 47; Los Angeles Times, June 12/13, 1987) – Hashemi also offered to help the government gain release of the […]

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] By Rachel Zoll Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP) – A white serial killer who traveled the country targeting blacks, Jews and interracial couples pleaded guilty today to the 1978 murder of a black man in Chattanooga. Joseph Paul Franklin, 47, now has been convicted of killing seven people and is suspected in ten other murders. He […]

Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25   Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] never published in the US, though copies were placed with Ramparts, W.W.Turner (22) and the Garrison inquiry. Of the Kennedy assassination de Gaulle said in 1964: “Kennedy’s murder will involve all sorts of consequences. Blood calls for blood. America is becoming less and less a stable country, one that can be relied on. It […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

In February this year, unnoticed by the press, a funeral took place in a quiet Sussex village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, … Read more

History Will Not Absolve Us (Book review)

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Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Orwellian control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy E. Martin Schotz Kurtz, Ulmer and DeLucia, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996 Distributed in the UK by Plough Publishing House (at 01580 883344), £15.50 This is a very odd book. It is beautifully printed, bound and laid-out – a pleasure to handle. Unfortunately the content doesn’t […]

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