Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] detail the attempts to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a […]

Ratlines

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] Papacy to get diplomatic recognition for Croatia. The April mail-shot from The Keys of Peter — an eccentric but entertaining mixture of high Catholicism, anti-Masonic thought and conspiracy theories — contains one of the truly great rewrites of an author’s intentions. Of the Aarons and Loftus book about the collaboration between the Vatican and […]

Miscellany

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] Donald Neff’s Warriors for Jerusalem. Of these three only Green’s book seems to have been published in the UK. And the list ought to contain Anthony Pearson’s Conspiracy of Silence (Quartet 1978) Pearson hasn’t exactly been visible since then. Anybody know where he is and doing what? Active British Servicemen “British servicemen (are) active […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tail piece

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] claimed to be based on personal experience,(2) about covert ops, remote viewing and corruption in US intelligence and the Bush administration, which are being widely quoted on conspiracy theory sites.(3) These stories are entertaining but highly improbable in places. A third Arrigo sister, Dr. Linda Gail Arrigo, says that Dr. Sue Arrigo is a […]

Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] 1940. It was very convenient for Churchill. The received view is that after Kent’s arrest Churchill/MI5 used the Kent-Captain Ramsay connection as evidence of a more organised conspiracy than really existed – a pretext – and the whole lot of them, Mosley’s group, Ramsay’s group, the remnants of The Link etc, were all rounded […]

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 […]

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] the failure of his children to back up his alibi. Marita Lorenz, former lover of Fidel Castro-turned-CIA-agent, testified that she had been part of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy along with Hunt, another Watergate ‘plumber’ Frank Sturgis, and some Cubans. But her first-hand knowledge of the assassination is nil. She left the group in Dallas […]

The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] he conspicuously hasn’t done, including not a line from either book that I can see. What he does tell us: Wilson ‘was…. predisposed to scent sabotage or conspiracy where none existed.’ (p. 475) Wilson ‘was not mad but lived on the fringes of a Kafka-esque world where madness was endemic’. (p. 478) ‘that something […]

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