Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] fourteenth, and seventeenth meetings of the Committee on Medical Sciences. CIA History Staff Memo, 1994, pp. 10-12. ‘In Vivo Caliberation Studies Using Humans Administered Niobium-92 Barium-133, Palladium- 103, Chromium-51, and Strontium-85. Human Radiation Experiments Associated with the US Department of Energy and Its Predecessors’, US DoE, Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, July […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] his ambition of selection for the SAS. This had one drawback: it meant he missed the Suez invasion ‘in which should have much liked to fight’ (p. 103). Instead, he was sent to Malaya to take part in the closing stages of the counter-insurgency campaign against the Communists. According to de la Billiere the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
There is an unmistakable thread running through America’s move eastward since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Using their vast economic clout – in the form of loans, grants and sanctions – and backed by threatening military supremacy (to say nothing of the devious use of ‘unattributable’ mercenary groups such as the MPRI), … Read more
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: Iran-Contra, the godfather of terror and the bombing of Pan Am 103 (forthcoming from Red Door).81 The paragraphs below are from the introduction. I have not been following Lockerbie and this was new to me and thus, perhaps, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] system, and many of its senior members, emerge from Lockerbie with little credit. But, as the canny First Minister also says, the fate of Pan Am Flight 103 on that December evening is caught up in matters of high political import. The feelings of al-Megrahi’s family and friends come very low on the agendas […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] a quote from Maheu, refusing to comment. 101 Jack Anderson, ‘Two Ghosts Haunt Nixon’s Campaign’, Washington Post, 24 January 1972. 102 Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, pp. 222-223. 103 In 1969, Pearson and Anderson had broken a story about Bebe Rebozo and Herbert Klein, Nixon’s communications director, visiting Continues at the foot of the next […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] working on Lockerbie for a long time and he has concluded: ‘New Evidence and Logic have led me to rewrite 30 years of History. Pan Am Flight 103 disintegrated in flight over Lockerbie on December 21 1988 because of a massive structural failure due to well-known issues of metal fatigue in section 41 and […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] doubts. Slide labels have very limited space, so case numbers are normally used. Dates are superfluous for blood smears which are only normally retained for seven days. 103 The matching Coulter count was performed the same day. The Coulter slip was automatically dated at the top. Albeit faint, it clearly reads ‘15/12/82’. Dr. Wahl […]
