Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1984) is stark in its criticism of the situation: ‘Amnesty International was concerned about reports of 32 See . 33 Jeremy Trevaskis is the son of Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, who had been Britain’s High Commissioner for Aden from 1963 to 1965. It would seem that Trevaskis Jnr. is still in the inteligence world, as […]

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. […]

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s by Alwyn W. Turner

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was re-elected in June 2001. The September 11 attacks were rather like the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall and the murder of President Kennedy all rolled into one. While in many ways the noughties (up until 2008) represented the continuation of the nineties by other means, the innocent delight in […]

lob81-british-gladio2

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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 […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] investigation in detail and I still cannot see that he had a case against Clay Shaw. He had some evidence that Shaw had a conversation about killing Kennedy (him and a thousand others) and – less certainly – some evidence that Shaw and Ferrie had advance knowledge of the events in Dallas. (Them and […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] Paine award from the Emergency Civil Rights Committee. Being a supporter of the Cuban Revolution, he used his acceptance speech to refer to the assassination of President Kennedy, which had happened the previous month. He told the audience that he saw something of himself in Lee Harvey Oswald, 2 although he did not think […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] access the financial records, which had survived intact. 1 Manson business, for example, led him into the murky world of Sirhan Sirhan and the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968. Meanwhile CHAOS is a great read. O’Neill doesn’t just present his findings; the book is written as a dramatic, almost Chandleresque narrative. Many of […]

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 […]

undercover cops book

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[…] which is one of three main threads here. Another is the author’s reconstruction of her life qua activist, as seen through the reports by ‘Mark Stone’ (Mark Kennedy) the policeman who became her lover/friend, some of which she got access to. Wilson recounts the bizarre and disconcerting experience of reading her former boyfriend’s account […]

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