[…] their arguments may well be wrong. (p. 108) Well hell, details of anyone’s arguments ‘may well be wrong’. That’s almost praising with faint damns *new* Cock-up? No, conspiracy. Back to Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, what used to be the beating heart of the US establishment. There is a […]
[…] At or 13 5 Project (BAP)14 which was first written about by Tom Easton in 1997 in Lobster 33. This ‘official’ account notes that what it calls conspiracy theories about the organisation’s origins first began in Lobster, which it describes as ‘an obscure, anti-American news-sheet’. Obscure? Yes. Anti-American? No. Anti-American foreign policy and anti-British […]
[…] (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, planting disinformation and other conspiracy is not denied. At another level, was there an inquiry at all? Wallace, Holroyd and Wright were not interviewed by the Duff inquiry.2 It apparently looked […]
[PDF file]: […] are using Safari which sometimes doesn’t ‘read’ it. Try another browser, eg Chrome. 3 Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
[PDF file]: […] via the ballot box – Labour received 37.1% of the votes in the February 1974 election and the Communist Party 0.1% – mattered not.(55) A secret communist conspiracy was, by definition, secret. Tony Benn was the focus of the anxieties at parliamentary level. In this period he was being surveilled, bugged, wire-tapped, harassed and […]
[…] to do so but compromised and joined the Legion of Frontiersmen, a part-time military Smith wrote for Lobster. See, for example, his ‘The Murder of Hilda Murrell: Conspiracy Theories Old and New’ in Lobster 28 and ‘Is Libya still the prime suspect in the murder of WPC Fletcher?’ in Lobster 32. We met once, […]
[PDF file]: […] with the story at . 37 or 38 15 You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[PDF file]: […] lasted nearly two months and involved over 350 witnesses. For good measure, Mary Surratt, landlady of a Washington boarding-house, was also hanged. She had supposedly harboured the conspiracy while it was being hatched, and Booth had tried to recruit her son into it. The Lincoln plotters’ objective was to somehow overthrow the Union government […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.33 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.34 28 29 30 or 31 Notably The Man Who Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, […]
[…] of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of Great Britain’s self-proclaimed eminent conspiracy theorists, decided to emulate the radical anti-CIA Professor Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley), wl1om they admired. 100 Tl1ey did so by ptiblishing a small […]
