[…] but Prouty has no evidence for this. His comments are opinions, albeit those of a highly placed insider. Other possibilities exist: for example that the real assassination conspiracy was piggy-backed on the CIA stunt, a fake assassination attempt to be blamed on apparent Castro-sympathiser Oswald, implicit in Holt’s tale of the smooth-bore rifle firing […]
[PDF file]: […] from the Right.2 No wonder the remaining CPGB members were so shocked in 1991 when they discovered that the right’s view of the CPGB as a Moscow-directed conspiracy turned out to be partly true. Former member and CPGB employee, journalist Sarah Benton, reacted with talk of ‘the other communist parties’, meaning, I guess, various […]
[PDF file]: […] and a former banker for Hill Samuel, First National Bank of Chicago and Citibank, she told Theo Panayides of the Cyprus Mail: ‘It was all a great conspiracy. They had no evidence against Asil Nadir, and they wanted me to spill the beans. There’s something else you should know: they put a spy into […]
[PDF file]: […] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. Dallas again Ruby I receive Roger Stone’s email bulletins. In the March 24 edition, ‘Nightmare On Elm Street: JFK and the Assassination That Still Haunts America’,1 Stone recounts a conversation he had with […]
[PDF file]: […] only trumped by Dr Lewinson’s summary of her own findings when the awed Mr Epstein asked her whether Oswald’s handwriting gave any clues as to a possible conspiracy. Dr Lewinson announced: ‘In my opinion, Oswald needed support and guidance from others for carrying out a complex plan, such as his defection to the USSR […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001
[PDF file]: Direct Action Issue #19 Summer 2001 Lobster #40 / Lobster CD Winter 2000/01 03 214 Westbourne Au, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster describes itself as the journal of parapolitics — not sure what this is. However, the slabs of lobster-grey print make for a good read — particularly for the conspiracy-inclined. Is this coffee table material? […]
[PDF file]: […] Archives.9 Hess and the Doppleganger Hess Andrew Rosthorn’s piece on Rudolf Hess in the current issue10 makes mention of the BBC Timewatch episode ‘Hess: The Edge of Conspiracy’. The programme was fronted by the eternally smug Professor Christopher Andrew – he who was chosen by MI5 to be the custodian of their officially published […]
[PDF file]: […] Consequently he has missed the extent to which Mrs Thatcher was, in the shorthand of the British Right, ‘a patriot’; in other words, someone who accepted the conspiracy theory of ‘the enemy within’, in which the Soviet Union ran the CPGB, which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. 2 Thirdly, his knowledge […]
