[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 *new* All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing […]
[…] Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing economic […]
[PDF file]: […] far the most dynamic part of the 21 June Report is a lengthy editorial, covering a page and a half of A4 paper, denouncing the ‘Communist world conspiracy’. As one might expect, this diatribe is full of hot words and extravagant claims, and focuses upon the ‘peaceful coexistence’ policy promoted by Soviet premier Nikita […]
[PDF file]: […] chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ shades into ‘overarching conspiracy’ was not specified, but enough was revealed about the […]
[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]
[PDF file]: […] Jersey Mafia underbosses as Anthony (‘Fat Tony’) Salerno and Carmine Galante. Starting in the early 1960s, three federal trials of Cohn on charges of fraud, bribery, and conspiracy resulted in no conviction, but established his personal and business relations with various mobsters, including Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky.51 Like Garfinkle, Cohn was a financial […]
[PDF file]: […] there isn’t enough evidence to believe or disbelieve much of it; but let us consider it. The most complete account in English by Estes of the assassination conspiracy is in his 2005 book, Billie Sol Estes: a Texas Legend.3 This book appeared after a French book about Estes, Le Dernier Temoin (The Last Witness) […]
[…] have had the vision to understand that “They’ll come for us next.” In other words, the danger is that what begins with perhaps defensible suppression of loony conspiracy theorists on the right will eventually spread to 2 3 On Haley see the Texas Monthly article cited in note 4 above and . or https://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/article/issue/73/ […]
[PDF file]: […] of counter-intelligence and deputy controller’. He tells us (p. 240) that Peter Wright’s book ‘gave credence to Wilson’s persistent claims that he was the target of a conspiracy against him by a cabal consisting of at least 30 extremist MI5 officers.’ Wilson didn’t claim that. The 30 figure came from Wright who said that […]
