Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
Anthony Summers Gollancz, London, £18.99 Summers and his team of researchers have proved, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hoover was gay and that he had been bought off and blackmailed by the Mob into ignoring organised crime. (I am less convinced by the evidence supporting the secondary allegations that Hoover was a transvestite.) Hoover, in […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, New York, 1999. $16.95 www.autonomedia.org When Francis Parker Yockey met his own personal Ernstfall with his typically vaudevillian suicide by cyanide pill, dressed only in his underpants and a pair of jack boots, it frustrated an eight year FBI manhunt for the ‘mystery man’. The impact of his gesture was no doubt […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] longest subtitles in publishing history: ‘How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assass-ination and emerging global epidemics’ Kennedy assassination initiates will glimpse a little bit of the story from that subtitle. Cancer and New Orleans? Wasn’t […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission’s Report, a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46% of the American public did not think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show similar, or possibly […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] opened at random. ‘And what of the George Bush address found in the address book of CIA agent George de Morenschildt, the control agent for Lee Harvey Oswald? DeMorenschildt had been a spy for the OSS in German intelligence, and some have speculated that he may also have been Bush’s CIA handler’. DeMorenschildt’s role […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is over. Under the heading ‘Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?’, this appeared: ‘According to the Warren Commission, the man who killed John F. Kennedy in 1963 was a psychotic, acting alone. Not so, according to tireless […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] without being told at the time what it was and still suffers flashbacks … The CIA Project Artichoke at Atsugi, Japan, begun in 1952, where Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed (See Did Lee Harvey Oswald Drop Acid? in Rolling Stone 13th March 1983) Howard Marks was arrested after dealing with the remnants of the […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to 26,000. To this reader, such a dramatic changing of coats suggests that his socialism had only ever been worn lightly. The man Beckett chose to follow, Oswald Mosley, has been the subject of an attempted major rehabilitation job in the last thirty odd years. His own autobiography, My Life (1969) and Robert Skidelsky’s […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] member of the SDP. In his recent The Squandered Peace (London 1983) he tackles Kennedy’s assassination. In one half page (p. 294) he tells us (a) that Oswald had been arrested for distributing pro-Castro leaflets in Florida (actually it was in New Orleans); (b) that Oswald was ‘mentally unbalanced’ (said who?); and (c) that […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] serious and famous Dutch clairvoyant’ named Gerard Croiset in 1967. Croiset wanted to talk about the assassination and described a vision of a conspirator who had manipulated Oswald. Croiset’s description is reputed to have led Oltmans to George de Morenschild, the White Russian exile, petroleum geologist, and CIA contact who befriended Oswald in Texas […]
