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[…] minutely documented writing which became my exemplar. In the CovertAction piece Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer write: She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] minutely documented writing which became my exemplar. In the CovertAction piece Kuzmarov and Alexis Baden-Mayer write: She was also way ahead of her time in recognizing the hidden CIA involvement in Watergate, the Jonestown massacre, Charles Manson killings, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and murder of John Lennon among other “deep-state” crimes. Ah, a footnote! […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]

Spinfluence: the Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses by Nicholas McFarlane

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] thesis is about social control, corporations, the mass media and the techniques used by political and commercial PR to keep ‘the sheeple’ quiet on behalf of ‘the hidden elite minority’. Did I say agitprop? Within that, however, there is a decent guide to the techniques deployed. But that thesis is no more important, it […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[…] the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press accounts of the second […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

Lobster Issue

[…] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] to dig up dirt for defending against a $50 million lawsuit filed by Maheu against Hughes for wrongful dismissal and libel. See James Phelan, Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years (London: Fontana, 1977) p. 104; Davenport and Eddy (see note 50) p. 215; Maheu and Hack (see note 21) p. 252. Intertel was owned by […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

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