JFK’s assassination: a big new book and a strange memoir

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – many presumed previously to be disinformation – and offers them as true. Here’s a quote from the interview cited in footnote 2 above which conveys this better than any single quote in […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] trusted. Some in the KGB suspected that he (along with Blunt, Burgess and Cairncross) had been a British agent all along, providing the USSR with chickenfeed and disinformation. This went all the way back to the wartime period, when one analyst, Elena Modrzhinskaya, argued that it was incredible that SIS would recruit someone with […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] paradigm for American media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a long litany of […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] put flesh on the biographical bones of John Melvin Liggett, a shadowy character whose apparent connections to the JFK assassination are discussed in my own ‘Doubles and Disinformation’ in this issue of Lobster. There is good news and bad news about this book. The bad news is that, despite the author’s first-hand research into […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] would do that (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. These ‘little hints’ were collected and discussed by Steve Dorril in ‘Five at Eye’ in Lobster 17 and examples of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal politicians. In this context it is a very striking list of speakers. Major Alexander Greenwood had been […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of political choices over many years and is quickly exposed when there is a crisis, with the US always left to do the heavy lifting. https://www.navylookout.com/royal-navy-aircraft-carrier-will-not-be-deployedto-the-mediterranean-but-other-options-are-open/ Holt Disinformation Ministers accused of a cover up as it is revealed shadowy army unit DID spy on British critics of Covid lockdown policies, Daily Mail 25 Nov […]

Estes, LBJ and Dallas

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Factor was brain damaged during military service; Estes was a convicted fraudster; Hunt’s claims were those a dying CIA officer whose role within the CIA had included disinformation; and McClellan’s ‘evidence’ was merely the statement of a third party buried in a book mixing fact with faction. But many of the witnesses in other […]

1976 and all that: the IMF incident

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] to accept the harsh IMF prescriptions.11 (Emphasis added.) At the end of all the wrangles, the months of cabinet debate, the international horse-trading and arm-twisting, and the disinformation from within the financial nexus in Britain, the result was a compromise. Accepting the need for a deal with the IMF – if only for the […]

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