Plot elements in the Colosio Murder Mystery

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] (Partido Revoluncionario Internacional), was assassinated in Tijuana. The TV coverage of the event was every bit as obscure and unhelpful as the TV reporting after the JFK murder and worse than the coverage of the attempt on Ronald Regan’s life. The news video of the assassination didn’t play once; instead heads talked and voxes […]

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

Before he went on the run, in the wake of Ernie Elliot’s murder in 1972, former British soldier and UDA member David Fogel gave an interview to the London Times.(1) In it he denounced sectarianism and said that he hoped that one day ‘the Official IRA and the UDA would work together, because both […]

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Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] up by some of his RUC Special Branch colleagues for trying to arrest a UVF man in the 1970s. He also links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] from which Sukarno had been excluded, allowed Suharto in turn to masquerade as Sukarno’s defender while in fact preventing him from resuming control. More importantly, Gestapu’s gratuitous murder of the generals near the Air Force base where PKI youth had been trained allowed Suharto, in a Goebbels-like manoeuvre, to transfer the blame for the […]

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The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] is it really believable that a police officer could spend two hours in the Murrell house without checking whether she was at home or not? Investigation first, murder second! Why was a professional counsellor of people with sexual problems visited by Shrewsbury Police at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 23 March 1984, and asked if […]

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The murder of Hilda Murrell: ten years on

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

Introduction Clear cut examples of political murder, or state assassination in the mainland UK have been virtually non-existent. It is that fact which has helped focus so much attention on the deaths of Hilda Murrell and, in Scotland, of Willie McRae. Lobster got into this area relatively early, printing in issue 16 a long […]

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Tolerated Crime and Tolerated Murder

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] Mafioso, Carmine Galante of the Bonanno family, might have seemed air-tight; he was under surveillance at that time, for parole violation, and thus was placed in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti-Communist informant for […]

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The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] to a temporary halt the ceasefire on January 16th 1975.(20) The two Loyalists, members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), may also have taken part in the murder of the Miami Showband on 21st July 1975. The two murders have been linked by forensic evidence – ignored by Ambush – which proves the same […]

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Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] everywhere in the last few years. This is Chamish’s account of himself: ‘Israeli journalist Barry Chamish is the most outspoken and document-laden of the dozens of Rabin murder “conspiracy theorists”. The Canadian-born Chamish moved to Israel in 1975, got an MA at Hebrew University and in ’82 fought in the Lebanese War. Following the […]

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The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Turkish extreme right was Agca affiliated with? (2) And secondly, could this affiliation in and of itself have provided him with a strong motive to try and murder the Pope? Although these particular questions are not terribly difficult to answer if one is familiar with the historical background of various Turkish political groupings and […]

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