Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] “One Boggis-Rolfe or two?” in Lobster 38 Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Pryor with assistance from Robert Brydon, Double Standards: the Rudolf Hess Cover-Up, (London: Little, Brown and Co, 2001.) Its advocacy of Operation Robot, the plan to make the pound convertible at a floating rate, is rooted in this conjuncture John Fforde, […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] to John Major, and the Labour Party leadership began the long and tortuous process of full-scale conversion to being another Tory Party. And we got Blair and Brown after John Smith’s heart attack. And we got an end to the party’s members, via annual conference, having any say at all in policy making. I […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
Introduction: Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Lee Harvey Oswald, like his mother Marguerite Oswald (née Claverie), was born in New Orleans, on 18th October 1939, and spent his first five years in the Crescent City. In early 1944 Mrs Oswald moved to Dallas with Lee and his half-brother, John Pic. She changed addresses frequently … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] NatWest Charitable Trust. The influence of the unelected Baroness Scotland may wane rapidly once Blair goes, but the BAP will still have plenty of members around Gordon Brown should the man, who has already said he wants to replace Trident, begin to stray from Atlanticist orthodoxy. Thinking even further ahead we have BAP veteran […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] (US and other), conspiracy and health. Site broken up into 1995 and 1996, and gives monthly list of items published. 1996 includes Oklahoma City bombings, Waco, Ron Brown, Nazi gold, Marilyn, Kennedy and the Mob, the buying of the President, bovine growth hormone, Gulf War syndrome and aspartame (widely used artificial sweetener thought to […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] quite understand that. From M. R. D. Foot Scott Newton seeks to revive in your number 39 legends about SOE propagated by Robert Marshall and Anthony Cave Brown. The collapse of Francis ‘Prosper’ Suttill’s SOE circuit, centred on Paris, in late June 1943 can be fully explained from the circuit’s own weaknesses: it was […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] know that behind my back he is up to something quite different’, explained one Colonial Office Under-Secretary. On the other hand, key officials such as Anthony Montague Brown, Churchill’s Private Secretary, always looked forward to the yellow dispatch box in which Young put the cream of ‘C’s output. As part of the effort to […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] who provided the intellectual underpinning for Gaitskell’s politics and some of his organisational muscle, was paid for a while by the CCF. We know, too, that George Brown, Gaitskell’s deputy, was so close to the Americans as to be described by some as a CIA source. We know that Gaitskell was on good terms […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Summers, The Arrogance of Power: the Secret World of Richard Nixon (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000); Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: the Costs and Consequences of American Empire (London: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] whom are. One reason why the agencies have lost influence in Parliament is because of changes in the House of Lords. For example, having ex-spook/BP chairman Lord Brown there, is not the same as having, say, a Lord Hayter in situ. The latter was ‘the last family chairman of Chubb’ whose products ‘guarded the […]
