No one ever suddenly became depraved

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] a ‘new (left) world order’ with Robin Cook’s (more mythical) ‘ethical foreign policy’, whose growth was stunted by a ‘malign alliance’ (he can’t bring himself to say conspiracy) of the ‘foreign policy establishments and the “old left”‘. The day after the huge war pro-test he would claim Blair was ethically leading Bush into the […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] ‘missionary’ are in Philip H. Melanson’s important study, Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and US Intelligence (New York: Praeger, 1990), pp. 94-5, and Anthony Summers’ The Kennedy Conspiracy (London: Sphere Books, 1992), pp. 343-4. Oddly, John Newman came across no references to Osborne/Bowen when researching Oswald and the CIA (New York: Carroll and Graf, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] SIS on them? Then the Sunday Telegraph had to apologise to the son of Colonel Gadafi whom it had accused in 1995 of being involved in a conspiracy to flood Iran with counterfeit money. This was a whiz-bang from those ingenious people at SIS, given to Con Coughlin then the Sunday Telegraph’s man in […]

Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] tends to be factually correct within paragraphs while the conspiratorial connections between paragraphs are mostly pure paranoid fantasy. ….Overall it is extremely right-wing, in the international- Jewish- conspiracy mould.’ Oct., 1983: Brierley takes over NZFP through Watties helped by newly appointed chairman Papps.Papps also chairman NZ Railways and presided over transport deregulation whose major […]

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] committee which organised the killing and incorporates some of the research which had been done at that time into the assassination. It suggests a local Mafia-oil-right wing conspiracy, hints at H. L. Hunt’s involvement and asserts that the Minutemen, a right-wing group of the period, and the Dallas police, were involved – but offers […]

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] have identified me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] ‘accident’), in October 1983. As far as we are aware there is as yet no detailed study of the event, nor any plausible explanation of it. U.S. conspiracy buffs, accustomed to scenarios in which liberals/leftists – Kennedys, King, Panthers – are assassinated by the right-wing, seem to be both confused by, and disinterested in, […]

Storming teacups! Or: Steve Dorril, Lobster and me

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] issue. Between issues 23 and 24 when I rang to arrange a meeting he told me he was too busy writing the book which became The Silent Conspiracy to meet me to discuss Lobster24. OK, thought I, this is silly: too busy to meet to even discuss the magazine which carries your name? I […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] U.S. Department of State. Identifying Misinformation aims to put paid to rumours and ill-founded tales that might show the USA in a bad light. With sections including Conspiracy Theories (‘Did the US “create” Osama bin Laden?’), Military Misinformation (‘Depleted uranium’), and Deliberate Disinformation (‘Saddam’s disinformation’; ‘Soviet disinformation’), plus guidance on ‘How to identify misinformation’, […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] the model for ‘Mr. X’, the character played by Donald Sutherland in the most risible scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK. Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military […]

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