After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] p. 303 Baker p. 308 Baker p. 348 Baker p. 311 Baker p. 345 Baker p. 348 The Guardian, 1 December 2007 ‘Blacklist?’, hosted by Professor Ian Kennedy, with guests Harold Musgrove, Hilary Wainwright, Hugo Cornwall, Richard Norton-Taylor, George Brumwell, John Macreadie, Michael Noar. Channel 4, 10 September 1988. Baker p. 178 Retired and […]

The Road to 9/11

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] doesn’t take the story back to the 1960s but the Walton book, Brothers, reviewed above, shows that the struggle between the Pentagon and civil America dominated the Kennedy Presidency; and it now looks entirely plausible to view post-war American history as centred around the problem created by the successful ending of the American depression […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Lee Harvey Oswald, who was ‘trained in Russia and with a Russian wife’! […]

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] confined location and under medical supervision.) Austin LaRocque and Charles Dyer, both former students at the Fernald State School, told a panel headed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Representative Edward Merkey that at that time they could not read or write and the researchers failed to obtain the full consent of them or […]

Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] by about page 40 the succession of dotty prophets gets wearisome. The one section worth photocopying, perhaps, is that on the far-right’s reactions to the death of Kennedy – essentially relief that a ‘Marxist’ had been got for the dirty deed. For their journals show that they initially expected to get the blame for […]

Spook-wise: MI6 and Clare Short

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] might have survived without is ‘MI5, 1909-1945: an information management perspective’ by Black and Brunt in the Journal of Information Sciences, 26 (3) 2000. What next, the Kennedy assassination: a catering perspective? On the other hand, an article which could have used a lot of expansion was ‘The Labour Party spies……..Stella’s last State Secret’ […]

New Labour tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] the Foreign Policy Centre had no previous connection. Twigg will be a welcome ally on Merseyside of old LFI friends and war backers Louise Ellman and Jane Kennedy. A band of brothers The tightness of the New Labour media and political circle was exemplified in the days following the November publication of the Independent […]

Contributors to this issue

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] fascism, communism and the left for New Statesman, Socialist, Casablanca, and Private Eye. Anthony Frewin works in the British film industry. His The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: An Annotated Film, TV and Videography 1963-92 has just been published by the Greenwood Press in the USA. Peter Smith teaches politics at the University of […]

Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] the ‘cui bono?’ question (a) without establishing that there was a crime, and (b) without noticing that, even if there were, as with the assassination of John Kennedy, there are so many plausible answers as to empty the question of its force. And like his immediate predecessors in this new Italian ‘market’, messers Cornwell, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] to read the available literature on the subject. Hennessy’s relationship to the Anglo-American states is perhaps illustrated by his role as one of the administrators of the Kennedy Scholarship scheme which takes bright, promising, middle of the road British politicians and intellectuals across to the States to absorb the meaning of the ‘special relationship’ […]

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