Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] later died in circumstances that are still the subject of debate and reinvestigation. The usual theory is that she was murdered to prevent her from exposing a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination.6 With two mystery deaths on its roll-call, the ominous nature of the ‘Marilyn memo’ seems unavoidably obvious. The memo also mentions that […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] why has it taken the academic world so long to get here? Two reasons come immediately to mind. The most obvious is that the interest taken by conspiracy theorists (mostly on the American right) in Bilderberg contaminated the subject for academics chiefly concerned with careers and 1 Jon Ronson, ‘Who pulls the strings?’ . […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Hess’ desperate and bizarre initiative, and his subsequent life incarceration in Spandau prison, have given rise to a host of conspiracy theories. The authors deserve credit for their stamina in going through both older and newer material with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. My only quibble is that […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] warfare also be in the pipeline? Just as the Pentagon claimed that it wanted to prevent a ‘space Pearl Harbor’ and a ‘weather Pearl 75 Interviewed in Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: “HAARP”, truTV, 2009, 76 William Cohen, ‘Cohen address 4/28 at Conference on Terrorism: Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy’, University of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] Gorbachev’s perestroika, professional historians crisscrossed the old Iron Curtain mounting reciprocal research expeditions into each other’s archives. For the British, any evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the […]