Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] Waggoner Carr even provided the Warren Commission with Oswald’s FBI employee number and monthly salary. (12) It seems reasonable to speculate that the FBI heard of a conspiracy to kill the President centring on ultra-rightist elements in New Orleans, possibly using Mafia contract killers. (13) So Oswald is infiltrated into the group, to inform […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] collection with a survey of research developing in these fields now that the Cold War is over, and includes his now customary warning of the dangers of conspiracy theorising – citing James Angleton as an example of what can happen: ‘Once contracted, conspiracy theory is an incurable condition.’ As usual, the irony of that […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] publisher e-mailed me recently: ‘There is further an enormous reluctance among publishers to stick their necks out in areas like this. After all, if true, the 9-11 conspiracy renders the last 3 years of history into a nightmarish farce. Consciously or not publishers exist inside the dom-inant narratives of their culture. Even if someone […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] raises what Hancock calls ‘a very uncomfortable question…..Is there any possible way in which the vice-President of the United States could somehow have become influenced by a conspiracy?’ (p 308; emphases added). He thinks there is and tells the Bobby Baker story, pointing out that LBJ’s closest aide Baker and a lobbyist friend of […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] This is the book of the TV series on Channel 4 in 2001. Through a series of encounters Ronson presents various aspects of the current, predominantly American, conspiracy theory culture. A bit like Louis Theroux, Ronson tries to come across to his subjects as a completely harmless nebbisch in the hope that they won’t […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
A Very British Jihad: Collusion, conspiracy and cover-up in Northern Ireland Paul Larkin Belfast: Beyond the Pale, 2004, £10.99 p/back Larkin was an investigative journalist and producer for the BBC in Northern Ireland and this book is based round the TV programmes he made there about the paramilitaries and the British state in the […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Tom Bower London: Fourth Estate, 2001, £6.99 After tackling the Paperclip Conspiracy, Klaus Barbie, Nazi medical experiments, looted cash from holocaust victims in Swiss banks and various tycoons (Rowland, Maxwell, Fayed) the latest target for a thorough Tom Bower investigation is Sir Richard Branson, though this is a tale on a smaller scale […]