NASA, Nazis & JFK: the Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

Introduction by Kenn Thomas Foreword by David Hatcher Childress Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, USA, 1996, $16.00   Also known as ‘Nomenclature of an Assassination Cabal’, the so-called Torbitt Memorandum (‘Document’ here for some reason) has been floating around the JFK research world since the early 1970s. Torbitt looked quite promising initially: lots of interesting […]

JFK bits and pieces

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

JFK bits and pieces Paul Hoch recommends JFK:The Book of the Film (Applause Books, 211 West 71 St NY, NY 10023). This contains a footnoted JFK screenplay and about 350 pages of published articles, including some of the best anti-Stone stories. The final badge of honour was bestowed upon Stone’s movie by a long, ludicrous … Read more

Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] 1947), is Security and Democracy: the CIA in transition. And a new blockbuster is on the way from Anthony Summers, he of File on the Czar and Conspiracy fame. Friends in High Places: the Bechtel Story by McCartney. (See Mother Jones, June 1984) for Bechtel’s relevance to the Reagan regime, and earlier periods in […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] at No 10 diminished and by the 1974 government he was positively hostile to Wilson – probably, but not certainly, because he had become infected with MI5’s conspiracy theory about Wilson and the KGB. Wilson believed that Wigg was the source of some of the leaks to the press and hired a private detective […]

The Round Table Again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] – not even for refutation – and the closest we get to him is the comment of the Round Table that ‘as an organization that shunned publicity, conspiracy theories abound….’ However, the authors go on to note that the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) ’emerged after the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] Let’s think: Operation Phoenix? Supporting every scumbag regime on the right since World War 2? Facilitating the world-wide heroin plague? A parapolitical joke How many Kennedy assassination conspiracy theorists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer: Fifteen. One to screw it in, five to say he acted alone, one to say […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] one message between the two leaders which had apparently not been released into the public domain. In The Independent (24 August 1998) Paul Lashmar, in ‘Pearl Harbour conspiracy is bunk’, reported that the ‘secret file’ believed to contain the aforementioned ‘secret telegram’ had been released into the Public Record Office – and there was […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] Amsterdam, Netherlands tel/fax: +31-20-6127023 e-mail: website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ceo/ Still steamin’ Steamshovel Press launched an improved Website earlier this year, under the catchy if barely intelligible slogan, ‘All Conspiracy. No Theory’. www.steamshovelpress.com Presswise Presswise is a charity which primarily exists to represent the interests of those abused by the Press. Their Web site now contains […]

Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] still peddling one of the original cover stories, apparently unaware of even the basic facts of the case. He continues: ‘But this and an abundance of other conspiracy theories have led to no firm conclusion. Certain facts are now clear: for example, the House Select Committee on Assassination in 1977-8 commissioned a com-puter-generated three-dimensional […]

Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] of anyone else. The Research Centre is going to produce newsletters, clippings etc. Help Wanted Peter Jordon was convicted some years ago of being part of a conspiracy, with members of INLA (if memory serves), to assassinate a British Army officer. Whether he was guilty or not (or what he thought he was doing) […]

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