Book Reviews

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Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] from the endless recycling of anarchy’s glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti- Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South African refugee, he […]

The 1975 Referendum on Europe

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] had learned the Soviet Unions had plans to invade Western Europe and these would be carried out once the trade unions in Western Europe led by a Communist Fifth Column had fomented widespread strikes to prevent the invasion being resisted.’ Some years ago Body made claims about the CIA involvement in the campaign but, […]

The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third secret’ spoke of his assassination and suggested an anti- communist crusade. West reproduces the text of this on p.5 – it was first released onto the Vatican’s Web site! – and there is nothing in there […]

Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] end of them Olds’ reputation had been roundly trashed in a McCarthy-style personality assassination. Olds’ desire to see ‘social responsibility’ ahead of profit made him a ‘ communist’. His appointment was rejected, much to the delight of the oil and gas lobby, cementing Johnson’s position as their chief mouthpiece in the legislature. Following Olds’ […]

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t … Read more

Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock […]

Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. When […]

The Anglo-Rhodesian Society

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] States.(6) The role of the O’Brien organisation in Britain is similar to that of Marvin Leibman in the U.S.. The first Secretary General of the World Anti- Communist League when it was entirely a lobby group for Taiwan, Leibman began in the China Lobby, went on to the Tshombe lobby (American Committee to Aid […]

A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] slowly, and didn’t show results until some years later when a seer we planted on President Nkrumah of Ghana persuaded him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when […]

American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984)

[…] dedicated to the preservation of ‘containment militarism’; its stated goal to ‘train young American Labour leaders in the critical issues that divide the Free World from the Communist states’. It received $6,000,000 from Richard Scaife, an ultra-right millionaire who “has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his vocation”. He also […]

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