JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] Chapman Pincher subsequently stated the call was made by Victor Louis, the London Evening Standard’s Moscow correspondent; but the only evidence adduced was that Louis was a communist and therefore, one supposes, capable of anything.(5) Earlier this year my annotated examination of the JFK assassination paperwork generated by the FBI’s London office was published […]

From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] postwar policies of the Soviet Union and the United States than most Americans are willing recognise.’ (p.21) ‘At about the same time in February 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was carrying out a coup d’état in Prague, rightwing forces in the southern half of divided Korea, then under the control of the […]

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’ […]

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 […]

Secret Contenders

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so […]

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 […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] be what you would expect from something published by the NISC (President Ray S. Cline). This is mainstream, (ie by contemporary American standards centre-right) academic, orthodox anti- Communist, anti-Soviet, anti-left material. The single issue we have carries a long review of a book purporting to show that the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) is […]

Blairusconi: populism and elite rule

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] denouement of the populist politics that we can now call Blairusconism. Parallels The parallels between the two leaders are striking. Berlusconi emerged after the death of the Communist Berlinger in 1984, while Blair moved (famously quickly) after the death of John Smith in 1994. Both rode high on the promises of constitutional reform; Berlusconi […]

The Pinay Circle

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] may explain what appear to be errors. The Pinay Circle is an informal group which meets twice a year in different locations. It includes conservative and anti- communist politicians, journalists, bankers etc., and occasional guests, all of whom originally gravitated around former French President Pinay. A meeting took place at the Madison Hotel, Washington, […]

Errors, corrections and updates

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] I took no more notice, except to recount the story as a funny joke, until Will Warren visited me soon afterwards. Will had come out of the Communist Party at the same time as Newton and told me that his divisional committee of the party had once devoted a whole meeting to discussing whether […]

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