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[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.22 Some of the content […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use against 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.7 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.25 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes about Wallace and the assassination. The putative witness to that meeting of Carter and Estes, one Kyle Brown, unnamed by Estes in his memoir, had previously confirmed the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] with LBJ’s no. 1 assistant, Cliff Carter, in which they discussed the JFK assassination and the role in it of LBJ, Carter and their gopher-cum-hitman Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace. What is allegedly part of the tape recording of that conversation has been made public by Estes’ grandson.12 We can apparently hear Carter talking to Estes […]

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Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Broken-down Blighty In my local library book sale I picked up a copy of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant […]

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Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.3 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]

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