Sex and Rockets: the occult world of Jack Parsons

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] unconvincing Where does this leave us? If the book cannot establish that Parsons is quite the scientific figure claimed, or that he was a victim of any conspiracy, what Carter does show is that all the ingredients of contemporary ‘New Age’ culture can be found in the US west coast in the 1940s: interest […]

Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985)

[…] Laos. ‘Yet the US military, using personnel from Collins Radio as a civilian cover, proceeded to build the communications infrastructure for a generalised Indochina war.’ (The Dallas Conspiracy by Peter Dale Scott, unpublished manuscript, Ch 11, p3) In late August 1963 Collins won an important sub contract from General Dynamics to install high-fidelity radio […]

Ten Thirty Three: The Inside Story of Britain’s Secret Killing Machine in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] a period of time, became the means whereby the loyalist paramilitaries were brought to play their part in the British counter-insurgency strategy. There was, Davies argues, a conspiracy between Military Intelligence and the Ulster Defence Association which carried the battle on the streets to the very heart of the Republican movement; and the campaign […]

Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] before acquiring the powers of the president. This, I suggest, is was what got him killed; and I presume he was killed, if not by the same conspiracy which killed JKF, by a conspiracy emanating from those forces or interests which did not want the original killing investigated. We will probably never know the […]

Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] much more sinister, because concealed, Left — the Left of the sophisticated world government bureaucracy, with its tentacles of international finance and its highly matured machine of conspiracy and terror — a Left that is so adaptable in its guises that it can often look like the most Conservative and “patriotic” Right — to […]

Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy theory suggesting that the Rockefeller family was lunging for complete control over the government’s critical national security functions, using the Council on Foreign Relations and Henry […]

JFK: Oswald? Which one?

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] places Oswald on the 6th floor, the confession of Loy Factor in The Men on the Sixth Floor.(4) Factor also places Ruby and Oswald together in the conspiracy. Factor claimed to have been a member of the conspiracy, recruited as a marksman by a man he called ‘Wallace’. He identified his ‘Wallace’ as Malcolm […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] yet?’ The Sunday Herald, 30 November 2003. 13 Jefferson Morley , ‘The Good spy: how the quashing of an honest investigator led to 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories’, Washington Monthly, 35 (12) (December 2003), pp. 40-59. On-line at The Whitten/’Scelso’ testimony can be found at 14 Jefferson Morley, ‘Revelation 1963: for nearly four […]

Eclipse: the last days of the CIA

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] when the in-coming Know-nothing administration decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually […]

Journals

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] catch up with it until tipped off about it by Roger Sandell. Subtitled “Things Japanese and Provocative Information”, Survival is a bizarre mixture of anti-Semitism, US far-right conspiracy theories (mostly reprints from Spotlight), some of the freakier bits of the US Christian (sic) right, with large doses of psychological gibberish, misinformation about AIDS and […]

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