Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 11 attacks in the United States,1 the 15th anniversary generated very little mainstream interest. Would the investigation of 9/11 go the way of the President John F Kennedy assassination in 1963: anniversary recycling of old stories with its surviving researchers inhabiting the Grassy Knoll cast as ‘conspiracy theorists’? It seemed likely when those looking […]

View from Bridge

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[…] The readable piece is at . 19 We don’t know the source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 20 6 Jeffrey Sachs and CIA – the good old stuff lindsay O’Rourke 2017 […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] other Labour personnel, including Yvette Cooper, whom Balls later married, and David Miliband, head of Blair’s policy unit, Balls had spent a year in America as a Kennedy Scholar.6 3 By 1994 the long-delayed implementation of the 1952 Robot plan – the British economy open to the world and controlled solely by interest rates […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] city of Provo in Utah. Their specific task was to recruit from the Brigham Young University, which is wholly owned by the Mormon church. Even today, the Kennedy Center at Brigham Young has a CIA recruitment page on its website.46 In the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, one of the ‘wild card independent candidates was […]

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[…] of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are mine.) Professor Norman Stone (historian) Sir John Webster (perhaps the Royal Navy Webster) George Young (presumably George Kennedy Young, former Deputy Chief of SIS) Sir Michael Howard Smith (Director-General of MI5) Cranley Onslow MP (former SIS officer) Ian Gow MP Charles Elwell (MI5) Mr […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] page. 6 7 Attending a NATO meeting in West Germany. 8 Reagan had been lobbied to this effect by 45 Senators and Congressmen including Tip O’Neill, Edward Kennedy and Daniel Moynihan. Politically, the Democrats had an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives. The Republicans had a majority of only 6 in the Senate. […]

Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, and his account of Henry Kissinger’s life and crimes, The Price of Power. 2

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] left of centre MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924-1929 and 1929-1945, he dallied with Oswald Mosley circa 1930. With an American mother, and related by marriage to John F Kennedy, he was the US candidate to replace Eden after Suez. He initiated the first significant UK spending cuts (in defence and transport) and oversaw a very […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] back in London, Novotny was selling her story to the News of the World, and further claiming she had slept with the nascent US President, John F Kennedy. She was also hosting sadomasochistic sex orgies with Dibben, including the ‘Man in the Mask’ party, and became a figure on the periphery of the Profumo […]

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