In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] Economic League, The Freedom Association, Institute of Economic Affairs, Social Affairs Unit. ‘Ernest Bevin’s Black Propaganda Unit’ and ‘Here Is The News – Courtesy of MI6’ Richard Fletcher, Tribune 2nd September and 9th September 1983 Two large pieces. The first is on the work of the Information Research Department of the Foreign Office: the […]

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] versions the cover-up is presumed to be the work of the group which organised the assassination.) The closest anyone has come to identifying such a meta-conspiracy is Fletcher Prouty. In his book The Secret Team (1) he described a loose alliance of individuals centred round the upper echelons of the CIA, with members elsewhere […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] 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 a significant lurch forward. […]

Our Searchlight problem

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] Service or News Service, a sort of Agitprop outfit. Kelly moved into a house in Hemmingford Road, Islington, some time last winter. He shares it with Richard Fletcher who is on the London Co-op Education Committee, (strong links with East Germany) this is at 104 Hemmingford Road, N7. I went to the house one […]

The Enemy Within: Thatcher’s Secret War Against the Miners; GB84

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] on picket lines and as a hit squad when required. He weaves in several fascinating strands from that period, including the murders of Hilda Murrell and WPC Fletcher. More importantly, there is a suggestion of a genesis in British Army-supported paramilitary activity in the north of Ireland in the 1970s. There is also a […]

The Flight of KAL 007: evidence of conspiracy

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] patsy.” Cutler sees the event as analogous to the Gary Powers U2 incident which blew the Eisenhower/Khrushchev summit in 1960. The same argument is offered by L. Fletcher Prouty in an article in the US porno mag Gallery (May 1985) which Cutler kindly sent me and which he acknowledges as a source in his […]

Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Department and the CIA. This is completely missing from Pearce’s account. And it has been omitted. Even if Pearce is unaware of the work of the Richard Fletcher (1) and his successors – and Lobster is one – the institutions of American political power are in Healey’s own account of his life, The Time […]

Parapolitical bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] member Menger, and messers Ikle, Sanchez, Reich and General Paul Gorman, all second-level members of the military/intelligence establishment. (The ‘Cabal’ is, of course, strikingly similar to L. Fletcher Prouty’s ‘secret team’.) The most interesting point in the Observer piece is the claim that the crisis was being stage-managed primarily to screw-up the approaching arms/disarmaments […]

Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] the CIA’s role in Indonesia in 1958 and moves on. When I came across this I looked at his bibliography: there is no Philip Agee, no L. Fletcher Prouty, no Victor Marchetti, no John Stockwell. He has written a history of the CIA ignoring all the Agency’s main defectors and whistle-blowers. Yet in his […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] left Unison because, as he told me in a letter, he didn’t trust Young because he was secretive and he didn’t know what Young’s objectives were. L. Fletcher Prouty died on 5 June 2001. Most of the obits noted that Prouty had served as the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald […]

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