Sources

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and […]

Islamic Imperialism: a history

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Efraim Karsh Yale University Press, 2006; 276 pp.   For anyone who believes that ‘imperialism’ is an exclusively Western phenomenon, that Islam has only been the victim of it, and that 9/11 was simply a reaction to that (‘blowback’), this book will come as a bit of a shock. Karsh argues that aggressive imperialism was […]

Sources: Spectre. CAQ, etc

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] distributors in the USA, with pieces on the Finders (an interview with the founder in which he blandly and not unconvincingly bats away all the talk of CIA); Project Mind Control (a not terribly interesting rehash of the mind control assassin thesis); UFOs, and an interview with the charlatan, John Coleman. POB 23715, St. […]

Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] America’ which paid for the American tendency in Labour to spend the 1950s visiting America, getting published and building careers. It was the State 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 […]

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] to provide, when spook and non-spook Arab specialists alike had warned of what would happen. In turn, some spooks – although I understand this applies to the CIA rather than to the SIS – blamed their exiled ‘kings-in-waiting’ for supplying information that, not surprisingly, advanced the latter’s singular objective: to replace Saddam Hussein as […]

Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] also opposed by former head of the Joint Chiefs, Admiral Thomas Moorer; beltway luminary the late Clark Clifford; former Secretary of State Dean Rusk; guardedly by former CIA chief Richard Helms; and by the surviving crew, who have maintained an active campaign for a congressional inquiry. Former Sunday Times chief reporter and broadcaster, Peter […]

Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

Nick Cook is a defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth […]

The Pinay Circle

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] at the Madison Hotel, Washington, on Dec. 1st 1979. Participants included Julian Amery MP (ex SOE, the Albanian operation, ex Air Minister); William Colby (ex head of CIA); Feulner of the Heritage Foundation; Paul Volker of the US Federal Reserve Bank; Italian Minister of Finance, Pandolfi; South African, General Fraser; former West German minister, […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

From Ian Cameron Since reading certain recent somewhat naff offhand Lobster comments (1) in connection with the reissue of Gordon Carr’s Angry Brigade by Christie Books, I’ve looked at the book and a few other bits’n’pieces. So, it all led nowhere, and rightly so? Lobster isn’t the first and won’t be the last to mythologise. […]

Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan got close. The former contra leader, Edgar Chamorro, told her […]

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