‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] this does not mean that the Warren Commission’s reconstruction of the assassination is accurate. Real covert politics However that may be, real covert politics, although by definition hidden or disguised and often deleterious in their impact, simply do not correspond to the bleak, simplistic image propounded by conspiracy theorists. Far from embodying metaphysical evil, […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] to Kennedy for possible blackmail – probably because of her Czech background. (For some reason Novotny believed that photos existed of her love making sessions taken from hidden cameras in the UN building.) It was reported that on leaving America Towers went to Prague, Moscow, and Peking, stopping for a time in southern Ireland […]

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The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

Lobster Issue free article

[…] I hope to show that it, and its predecessors, are powerful enough to help make history themselves. However they do not do so overtly, but as a hidden Force X whose presence is not normally acknowledged in the polite discourse of academic political scientists. On the contrary, as we shall see, references to it […]

Lobster Issue 38: Contents

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking at the final typeset copy’. This is false. I failed to notice the publisher’s explanation for the long underlined […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] a town where Jones preached as a child), and kept (Jones) from being arrested or run out of town.’ This information is attributed to A. J. Langguth’s Hidden Terrors, which does, in fact, tell us that Dan Mitrione was a police chief in Richmond, Ind. But this is well known. What’s interesting and important […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] it, the media operate with an array of moral and political assumptions, roughly speaking those of the liberal-individualist ideology of Western culture with its emotivist ethics and hidden dependence on existing power structures. After Dark broke all these rules from the beginning, built as it was by the Viennese to reflect the polygon of […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] have demanded curbs on privacy and the banning of encryption.’ But there is so far no evidence that encryption or steganography (a technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: ‘According to the FBI, the conspirators had not […]

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In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the KGB when running agents in the UK. These two aspects of the trial were held in camera, which meant about half the eight week trial was hidden from public scrutiny. The phone call A useful starting point is the phone call made to my home in Kingston-upon-Thames on the morning of 8 August […]

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Book reviews

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] GCHQ) during the war. There is now enough material around for a good book on GCHQ and its history. Who’s going to write it? KGB Today: The Hidden Hand John Barron (Coronet 1985) John Barron’s KGB Today: The Hidden Hand is now available in paperback (Coronet 1985). Chapman Pincher in Too Secret Too Long […]

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The Pentagon’s Psychic Research

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] them managed to deflect the SQUID to such a degree that Josephson, like Evan Harris Walker, suggested that physics needs to adopt a new paradigm to incorporate hidden variables and universal intelligence.(36) In the early 1970s Evan Harris Walker tried to incorporate psi phenomena within the framework of quantum mechanics. Walker’s theory links consciousness […]

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