South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Meet the new ‘C’ – same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] supporter of Italy’s Christian Democrats. See FBI memo from Special Agent in Charge, New York, to Director, FBI, May 15, 1963, record identifier 124-10215-10313, Records of the JFK Assassination, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). On Brod’s later work investigating ‘Italian politicians and fascists, political parties, Nazi fugitives, CP activities and Soviet and Chinese […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] accounted for the freewheeling and slightly disorganised nature of some of his shows. This was not the first time Dee had been associated with the murder of JFK. In 1969 he had tried to get a copy of the Zapruder film for broadcasting on Dee Time. 26 A discussion of the little that is […]

Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the men who stole the world by Nicholas Shaxson

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is a phantom, and it will enslave us.’ Further asides which may whet the appetite of the assiduous Lobster readers are the references to the interventions of JFK in 1963 to prevent the growth of offshore. He had put down legislation to crack down on deferred taxation. ‘The corporate community went ape-shit.’ JFK had […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as a lot of speculation. The author’s analysis of the shooting and its immediate aftermath is hard to follow and it made me realise how difficult the JFK assassination material must be for those coming to it for the first time. Another Met spook outed Mark Metcalf has written an interesting piece on his […]

General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy by Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD.

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: ALL RIGHT BOYS General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy Jeffrey H. Caufield, MD. Moreland, Ohio: Moreland Press, 2015. 987 pp., illustrated, notes, index. This is a monumental work based on some twenty-five years of archival research and personal interviews. There is much new information here that fills out the sketchier accounts on many […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Too Stoned The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War Norman Stone London: Allen Lane, 2010, £30, h/b You remember Norman Stone: one of Mrs Thatcher’s favourite historians and occasional speechwriter for her. I had not read any of his books but I picked up a copy of this in my […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his eligibility. Birtherism was not just used against Obama! The ultimate strike against Cruz, however, was the National Enquirer front page headline ‘TED CRUZ FATHER LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION’. Once again, Trump claimed to have nothing to do with this story being run, but once it was out there took relentless advantage of it. […]

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