KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50) <www.statesecrets.co.uk/index.html>   Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter … Read more

Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] and a few other computer millionaires, but is now underwritten by IBM, Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, MCI, Bell Atlantic, Adobe, the Newspaper Association of America, and the National Cable Television Association.(6) And the word ‘cyberspace’ is trumpeted in Scientific American, Time, Washington Post, and The New Republic. We can expect to see it soon in […]

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] into training and recognition aides by a team of Japanese speakers and experts. Here Young’s peacetime experience as sub-editor on American and British papers, and as a cable editor with British United Press, stood him in good stead. Young often quoted the dictum of his C-in-C, Lieutenant General Sir William Platt, for whom he […]

Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] 10th teletype was, in fact, doctored, according to evidence developed by the HSCA investigators. Phillips also told untruths. He said that Herbert Manell’s wife Barbara prepared the cable. Manell signed off on it. Phillips claimed it was delayed because of its ‘Cuban content’. The HSCA developed information that there was no Cuban content. Phillips […]

The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] saw Marx’s two investment companies go belly up, Neil Bush moved into the media business with help from, amongst others, Bush Team 100 donor Bill Daniels, a cable TV executive who gave Bush a $60,000 job with TransMedia Communciations of Houston. More recently, he has used his media knowledge in a new business venture, […]

Clippings Digest

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 28 February 1985) Interesting background support to this in Andreas Whittam Smith in Telegraph (16 February 1985) who quotes on history of British tapping. Claims all Britain’s cable traffic goes through computers programmed to record sections triggered by key words; eg gold, OPEC etc. Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland excluded from new […]

Thinking about the Falklands

Lobster Issue

[…] the Falklands. It would make an ideal listening post since it has very little radio activity. The radio ham who ‘heroically’ relayed details of the Falklands invasion by the Argentine was recently revealed to be an employee of Cable and Wireless Ltd, seen by some as a cover for GCHQ. Any more examples of this?

The biggest of big lies?

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

The Dismantling of Yugoslavia Edward S. Herman and David Peterson Vol. 59, No 5 of Monthly Review (online) Price stated as $5.00, €3.00, £3.00; but e-mail <> to check postage costs. In almost every conflict since WW2 in which the Americans have taken part they have been on the side of exploitation, oppression, torture, and … Read more

Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] Sheffield alternative newspaper City Issues June 1984. Members reported: police arrested without provocation tried to move pickets without warning arrested pickets for jeering at miners used plastic cable ties to handcuff arrested harassed ‘police watch’ members did not display identification numbers. Much of the above and more is summarised in Policing the Miners, GLC […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a … Read more

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