South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who was recruited while still a student at Brigham Young.47 There is even a Mormon connection to the seven people indicted by the Grand Jury for the Watergate burglary (five of whom had been involved in some way with the CIA). This was the public relations firm (and CIA front) Robert R. Mullen and […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[…] the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt. (94). Pincher adds that at the time of Watergate (1973? 1974?) “Tory MPs were promoting the idea that Wilson faced a ‘babygate’”, noting that “the Tory leadership had been given full information about the problems […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] attributes the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt.93 Pincher adds that at the time of Watergate (1973? 1974?) “Tory MPs were promoting the idea that Wilson faced a ‘babygate’”, noting that “the Tory leadership had been given full information about the problems […]

Lobster 11

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[…] the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt. (94). Pincher adds that at the time of Watergate (1973? 1974?) “Tory MPs were promoting the idea that Wilson faced a ‘babygate’”, noting that “the Tory leadership had been given full information about the problems […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] sort of terrain does the armourplated crustacean cover? Recent issues have examined the impact of naval sonar devices on whales (it kills them), an alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob Woodward’s Fear was an instant international bestseller, with sales promoted by both his Watergate reputation and by the fascination that the deranged President Trump excites. Could the man who helped bring down the last crook to occupy the White House, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] the left – what we might call the paranoid left – which was looking at the American and British secret states in the wake of JFK, Vietnam, Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, the Wilson plots and changes in policing and the rise of the ‘strong state’. Yet, looking back at the last 40 years or […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] with the Soviet Union was the background. In the UK it provided the context for IRD to be reigned back. In the US, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of CIA activities in the US and abroad, and the election of Jimmy Carter in 1976, there was a purge in the […]

The Oswald Code by Alan Jules Weberman

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] many reproductions of pages from the address book with Weberman seeing things that are just not there. To take one example, Frank Fiorini Sturgis, one of the Watergate burglars and a familiar face to the JFK critical community, features prominently. Weberman has this: ‘The name FIORINI appeared twice in Oswald’s address book disguised as […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] that the KGB had nothing at all to do with Kennedy’s assassination. Yet if that was the CIA’s intent, Epstein sorely disappointed the Agency. In a post- Watergate nation deeply cynical about government cover-ups, Legend offered its own version of a government deception; namely, the CIA’s reliance on a false Soviet ‘defector’ who claimed […]

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