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... , but not exclusively, to the world of intelligence agencies and similar organizations, where secrecy and covert operations were adopted as a matter of deliberate policy. 'I still see value in this definition and mode of analysis. But parapolitics as thus defined is itself too narrowly conscious and intentional to describe the deeper irrational movements which culminated collectively in the murder of the President: it describes at best only an intervening layer of the irrationality under our political culture's rational surface. 'Thus I now refer to parapolitics as only one manifestation of deep politics, all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than explored. ' (pp. 67) (Emphasis ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-15.htm
... The bulk of the book (it's not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was 'sounded out' by a CIA officer as Pitzer's assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn't go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected with a disputed death.1 Lt. Col. Marvin's fascinating story is examined this way and that, and its faults and failings assessed impartially. And it survives this scrutiny more or less intact. There are some military paper-trails unearthed, which go a long way toward helping the reader get his/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 13 Sep 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-without-smoking-gun.pdf
... puts that into political context by reminding us that in the 1980s, when Iran enjoyed US support during its war with Iraq, Libya was clearly targeted by the Reagan Administration. The shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984 encouraged Thatcher to become the only European leader to allow her country to be used two years later for a US attempt to murder Gaddafy by bombing after the Berlin La Belle night club attack in which American soldiers died. Ashton does not devote much of his book to the London murder or the German explosion, but he points to sources who question the accepted version of Libyan responsibility for both. He also tells us that the man charged by Reagan in 1985 with ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 35 - 07 Jun 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-lockerbie-1988.pdf
... in some of the shootings, but that wasn't the issue for those who had to look after national security. If it became necessary to sacrifice the career and the reputation of one man, then that was no big deal. In war, thousands upon thousands of innocent people go to the wall .. . Nobody wanted to frustrate Stalker's murder investigation. Murder is murder. Mitigating circumstances for killing have to be justified in court. We're all on the same side on that subject. But what Stalker couldn't seem to come to terms with was that national security has top priority and rides roughshod - rightfully so - over all other considerations and principles of law enforcement. The Secret ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-13.htm
... Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37 . Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments - the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones' book; James Hewitt's impromptu recreation of the fatal car journey; Mohamed Al Fayed accusing the Duke of Edinburgh of being the mastermind behind a plot to murder Diana and Dodi; and the possibility of inquests on Diana and Dodi taking place. A correction A significant correction to the article needs to be made. When the findings of the French Public Prosecutor were announced in September 1999 most newspapers implied that they were publishing either the full report or that they had seen the full report and were ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
... that the money came from P-2 , the rogue masonic lodge which Berlusconi had joined in 1978. These alleged associations have continued to dog Berlusconi and his reputation for the best part of a decade. Others have arisen from them, including an accusation that was examined by the magistrates for two years, that Berlusconi was complicit in the murder of magistrates investigating the Mafia in an attempt to cover up his own Mafia associations. He is currently on trial for the alleged bribing of a judge. I will examine both the allegations and Berlusconi's attempt to deal with them in more detail below. For now, it is sufficient to note that they are the reason it is increasingly ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-16.htm
... as a deliberate joke. See <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =ohmajJTcpNk>. been using exactly such psychological techniques for some time. This extends to issuing impossible itineraries and deliberately staging photographs in such a way as to cast doubt upon their authenticity.11 A false story that Putin had been murdered and replaced with a 'twin' did the rounds of Western media before anyone noticed that the source was a website supposedly run by the Ukranian military.12 Curiously enough, that website has now disappeared. Putin has been reported dead, injured, and ill several times, sometimes vanishing from view for days, only to re-emerge ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 32 - 09 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-holding-pattern.pdf
... poking the rifle out of the window before the motorcade passed by. The Mannlicher-Carcano which could be tied to Oswald and three spent rounds were left for the authorities to find. But framing a live Oswald would have been impossible: he would have talked of his activities with the FBI and CIA and the plan must have included Oswald's murder. (The fact that Oswald went home after the shooting to pick up his revolver suggests that he had some inkling that he might be in danger.) If Holt's account is true it could explain the apparent presence in Dallas that day of the Major General Edward Lansdale. It was Colonel Fletcher Prouty who identified Lansdale as being in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... and the fact that American politicians are aware of what it is capable of is shown by one telling episode. When President John Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General, 'asked the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John McCone, point-blank, if the CIA had been responsible for the murder. ' The fact that he expected a straight answer shows how distraught he was.(4 ) One point worth considering here is why it is that the United States maintains such a large covert capability and indeed makes such regular use of it. This has not been a feature of earlier empires is a response to the informal nature ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-09.htm
... for Dallas. On November 24th he was shot dead by Jack Ruby. Clay Shaw, Jim Garrison (and others)In mid-February 1967, nearly three and a half years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, news reports emanating from New Orleans claimed that the local district attorney, Jim Garrison, was investigating the President's murder. Within a week Garrison was holding a press conference and claiming that he had 'positively solved the assassination of John F. Kennedy'. On the day the news of Garrison's investigation broke in the local New Orleans States-Item newspaper, David Ferrie contacted the paper claiming he was targeted in Garrison's investigation as the getaway pilot for the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 31 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-02.htm
