Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] no difference to Berlet whether the book is important or useful, or that Prouty’s latest book JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy (New York: Birch Lane Press, 1992), offers unique perspectives based on his own experiences in the Pentagon. And never mind that no one else offered to […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] female members of the SLL and WRP over a long period of time. The Conservative candidate against him in the February 1974 general election had been George Kennedy Young, the former Deputy Director of MI6. For Young on Young see his ‘The final testimony of George Kennedy Young’ in Lobster 19. A more plausible […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
The Cecil King coup plot as precursor to Gordon Brown’s ‘government of all the talents’ Students of parapolitics are divided as to the seriousness of the Cecil King coup plot of 1968 to establish what he called a ‘businessman’s government’, a permanent coalition government dominated by the right of the Labour Party but with unelected […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] to the idea of a German bomb – especially the powerful nationalist wing led by the influential Franz-Josef Strauss. All this was worrying to the USA where Kennedy had taken over the Presidency in 1961 determined to prevent the fragmentation of the western alliance into separate US and European politico-economic power blocs: ‘If the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] establishing motives and the background of domestic paranoia about communism made the idea of a vast communist conspiracy irresistibly seductive to many of its advocates in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In these examples government sources provided the basis for the fantasy. The inherent plausibility of the claims and the discoverable facts on the […]