Pinay 2: Jean Violet

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] Belgian count, Alain de Villegas, teamed up with an Italian inventor, Aldo Bonassoli, for the first of several crack-pot schemes that would climax with the notorious ‘sniffer-plane’ fraud in France. The actual extent of the criminality of this pair is difficult to determine, because they did exhibit a genuine eccentricity, professing interest in everything […]

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Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] empire simply by means of smoke and mirrors. Alternatively, it was suggested that he was the victim of various plots. The alleged perpetrators ranged from the Serious Fraud Office, eager to justify themselves and make up for the near debacle of the Guinness trial by nailing a big fish, to the Greek government, in […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] from terrorism, drug cartels and the rest, a job better done by the police – as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘….. fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, […]

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Europe Inc and Blowing the Whistle

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] Belén Balanyá, Ann Doherty, Olivier Hoedeman, Adam Ma’anit and Erik Wessselius Pluto Press, London and Sterling (Virginia, USA) 2000, £14.99 Blowing the Whistle: one man’s fight against fraud in the European Commission Paul van Buitenen, London: Politicos, 2000, £12.99 In his memoir, In Office,(1) Norman Lamont describes meeting Wim Kok, the Dutch Finance Minister, […]

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The big one? 9:11 Revealed. Challenging the facts behind the War on Terror

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] this was the JFK case for the Internet generation. There are some obvious similarities; but there are obvious differences, too. For one thing, if this was a fraud, it is infinitely bigger than the killing of JFK. Kennedy was just a politician and killing politicians isn’t that unusual in American history. Another difference is […]

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Fifth Column. New directions for parapolitics: investigating the trans-national security elite

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] for a while so that they will lead the police to the bigger fish). The target is ‘economic crime’ (a wonderful return to Soviet terminology) such as fraud and tax evasion. Identity cards are thus much more about managing identity in the context of fraud (including benefit fraud) than about any threat from terror […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] US far right groups. is Daniel Brandt’s site which monitors Google’s activities and protocols. JFK: Billy Sol Estes A long, detailed account of the Billy Sol Estes-LBJ fraud story by Larry Hancock, is on the Net in two parts: part 1 is at and part 2 at This is by far the biggest and […]

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Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Brown and Root had underpaid taxes on stood at $1,099,944. They faced paying a penalty of 50%, with the additional danger that they could be charged with fraud. The dangers for Johnson were evident: publicity about the case could have ended his career. Johnson saw President Roosevelt in January 1944 to discuss the case. […]

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Persian Drugs: Oliver North, the DEA and Covert Operations in the Mideast

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] CIA now derided the whole project as a ‘scam’ and a ‘bunch of hocus-pocus’. Even Azzam, the DEA’s Task Force representative, thought it ‘stunk’.(34) But this obvious fraud did not deter North from playing the long odds in Lebanon with the Druze informant. In a June 7, 1985 memorandum to Robert MacFarlane, North advised […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] the USA against Venezuela in March – terrorists and drugs and nukes – reported straight by most of the major media, has been deconstructed into the crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, […]

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