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Watergate Exposed How the President of the United States and the Watergate Burglars Were Set Up as told to Douglas Caddy, original attorney for the Watergate Seven by Robert Merrit

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Merritt’s confessions here, if only half true, make those claims seem a little less ridiculous. Readers who have been paying attention to the LBJdunnit version of the Kennedy assassination in the past few years in these columns will recognise the name of Merritt’s coauthor, Douglas Caddy. For it was Caddy who presented to the […]

Conspiracy theories in the time of Covid-19, by Clare Birchall and Peter Knight

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Birchall is new to me1 but Professor Peter Knight has been in these columns before. Almost 20 years ago Anthony Frewin reviewed Knight’s Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files.2 Frewin was irritated by the author’s assumption that those pursuing what-happened-on-DealeyPlaza are conspiracy theorists. Mostly they aren’t; and the assumption by Knight […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[PDF file]: […] the ‘advisory committees which meet in secret to decide how party policy is to be applied to their own union…’. And by the time we reach George Kennedy Young’s Subversion and the British Riposte in the mid 1980s,11 industrial organiser Peter Kerrigan, his successors Ramelson and Costello, and the industrial wing — what Young […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] a huge amount of work with the extant literature and many new sources. O’Sullivan begins in 1968 and the election which brought Nixon to power. With Robert Kennedy assassinated and sitting President Johnson having announced he wouldn’t run again, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate was Hubert Humphrey. To bolster Humphrey’s chances, LBJ tried to […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] basic intellectual ground-clearing – reading, note-taking, assembling and indexing material. However, she cannot bring herself to state the obvious: in the early years after Dallas the serious Kennedy researchers didn’t offer theories because, for the most part, they didn’t have any theories. Conspiracy Notably Peter Knight, who is the editor of the series from […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] is the story of the French Secret Service and tl1e Rainbow Warrior episode. In the latter group, there is an interesting accotmt of tl1e career of George Kennedy You11g 111 (MI6), “,vritten by a dose friend of lus.” The author remains anonymous, but hints of Anthony Cave11dish abound. In issue # 21, guest author […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] them – is positively molten. How could Ted Cruz support Trump after he insulted his wife and accused his father of involvement in the assassination of Jack Kennedy? He had never seen any politician perform ‘acts of greater self-abnegation and humiliation’. The only excuse he can think of is that Cruz hopes for a […]

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 […]

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