Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] policy making. In short, he’s into politics for grown-ups: collecting and then connecting details to form big pictures. His 1991 book with Bob Whittington on the BCCI fraud remains one of the best guides to that financial and political scandal 14 years later, as the Bank of England’s regulatory role is finally being examined […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] a telephone call from one of Wallace’s former colleagues to another journalist, that ‘Wallace never jumped out of a plane’ – i.e. the parachuting story was a fraud. This mattered little: we had photocopies of letters from (a) a Major Boyd, of the Community Relations Branch, Army HQ, dated 19 April 1974, describing Wallace […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] US far right groups. is Daniel Brandt’s site which monitors Google’s activities and protocols. JFK: Billy Sol Estes A long, detailed account of the Billy Sol Estes-LBJ fraud story by Larry Hancock, is on the Net in two parts: part 1 is at and part 2 at This is by far the biggest and […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Brown and Root had underpaid taxes on stood at $1,099,944. They faced paying a penalty of 50%, with the additional danger that they could be charged with fraud. The dangers for Johnson were evident: publicity about the case could have ended his career. Johnson saw President Roosevelt in January 1944 to discuss the case. […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] CIA now derided the whole project as a ‘scam’ and a ‘bunch of hocus-pocus’. Even Azzam, the DEA’s Task Force representative, thought it ‘stunk’.(34) But this obvious fraud did not deter North from playing the long odds in Lebanon with the Druze informant. In a June 7, 1985 memorandum to Robert MacFarlane, North advised […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] the USA against Venezuela in March – terrorists and drugs and nukes – reported straight by most of the major media, has been deconstructed into the crude fraud it always looked like.(12) Reading the original stories you can almost hear the dialogue in some office in Washington: ‘Hey, our media bought it in Iraq, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] “the road-kill of history”‘. That from a descendent of slaves! Beyond parody A story in The Daily Telegraph, 15 August 2002, ‘Bush Anti-Corruption Chief Accused of Account Fraud’ began: ‘President Bush’s efforts to clean up corporate America were dealt an embarrassing blow last night when the man charged with leading his new anti-corruption task […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] I distrust any and all stories and conclusions that have been conveyed. I hope you will entertain no further doubts about my views.’ Shapiro says Oeschler a fraud I had already contacted retired RADM Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) on 3 August 1991. Asked if he had ever met […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] remaining British. These are that Republicanism is a barrier to working-class and socialist politics and that Sinn Fein’s claim to be a socially radical party is a fraud. When was the last time that any of these writers called for the establishment of a Labour Party in Northern Ireland? Harris and Myers don’t. And […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] children find ways to fake them. An absolute classic of the genre was reported by AP on 6 June 2001: ‘The Pentagon agency charged with rooting out fraud destroyed documents and substituted fakes to win a passing grade in an audit of its own operations, according to an internal inquiry.’ Inspired by this I […]
