Parish Notices
Mrs Anthony Verney died in early March this year. With her husband, Anthony, she was irradiated by persons unknown, for reasons unknown, at their retirement home in Kent. She is the first UK fatality of which I am aware resulting from the new generation of electro-magnetic weaponry; and it says much about this society, its government and its mass media, that her death will go unexamined.
Roger Sandell died of cancer. He was 51. An early contributor to Lobster, he had latterly been concentrating on Magonia.
Joe Vialls – an apology
An angry Joe Vialls rang me to complain about my reference to him in Lobster 30 (p. 21). He wanted me to make it clear that he has never said, in print, that he thought he had killed PC Yvonne Fletcher.
In this issue of Lobster
Page 2 begins an extract from a chapter from the new book by Peter Dale Scott. Scott is still the boss as far as I am concerned, and this extract shows that, armed with some of the recently declassified material, Scott is getting pretty close to unravelling some of the mysteries of Oswald in Mexico City. Scott is followed (p. 10) by Anthony Frewin’s continuing attempt to keep abreast of the Kennedy assassination literature. If you think you detect a faintly querulous tone, you’re right: the signal to noise ratio is pretty low at the moment.
Peter E. Newell (p. 12) has contributed an important essay on the hitherto almost entirely unknown Cold War CIA labour front, the Confederation of Free Trade Unionists in Exile. Tom Easton’s review essay (p. 17) on the history of the SDP which follows, is another important bit of work, with more evidence of the influence of the United States on the British political system. Easton’s essay shows just how trivial and a-historical most mainstream political analysis is in this country. Bit by bit the picture is clarifying. Both the Newel and Easton essays complement the Lobster Special Issue advertised on p. 20.
Armen Victorian had the irritating experience of seeing his piece on the US military and intelligence psychic research appearing in Lobster 30 just as the CIA began declassifying some of its material on that subject. His latest piece of research on the Remote Viewing programme (p. 23) has massively broadened and thickened our knowledge of this fascinating piece of spook history. With another transatlantic missive from Brother Alex Cox, surveying the madhouse called America from his monastery cell in Venice, California, bits and pieces from me (the author-less material is mine), Jane Affleck’s survey of Internet sites and her summary of the recent US military assessment of using the Net, and nine pages of book reviews and information on sources, there should be something in this issue for all the family.
Robin Ramsay
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