The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] tatty plastic cover. Inside it were names, addresses and national insurance numbers. Then they found a card index. It very much resembled the way a police local intelligence filing system might work. It was organised alphabetically and each card related to a name in the folder. There were files on 3,213 construction workers. Clancy […]

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[…] narratives are found wanting and counter-narratives (of varying plausibility) abound: from the suspicious deaths of government weapons experts, cryptographers and shadowy financiers to the covered-up connections between intelligence agencies and terror groups (see Curtis 2010). Criminologists should shrug off the stigma attached to theorizing that diverges from official accounts and carefully excavate the deep […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

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[…] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] them’. And then there is his relationship with Vladimir Putin, a relationship that is ‘so obsequious that former CIA director John Brennan and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that Trump might have been compromised by the Kremlin’ (p. 145). As he points out in his discussion of the ‘Collusion’ issue, the […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] successor, Sir Keir Starmer. Not only does he have an employee of the Israel lobby, Luke Akehurst, on the party’s National Executive Committee, he has former Israeli intelligence officer, Assaf Kaplan, on his social media team.23 The subsequent expulsion from Labour of Jewish members who do not support Israel has been a regular but […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] that X lied, or that the CIA screwed the inquiry, might not imply involvement in the assassination. Shaw and Ferrie had all manner of connections to US intelligence that they did not want to discuss; and Garrison’s inquiry was heading off into areas the CIA did not want examined: to name the obvious two, […]

Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ on Dealey Plaza

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] of assassins based in Mexico, delicious though the idea is. 18 The single most striking element in his story is his account of being asked by his intelligence handlers (he says DIA but I’m sure it was CIA) to run a safe house in the circus he was working in, on the road – […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] an initial print run of 150. Its early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a […]

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[…] narratives are found wanting and counter-narratives (of varying plausibility) abound: from the suspicious deaths of government weapons experts, cryptographers and shadowy financiers to the covered-up connections between intelligence agencies and terror groups (see Curtis 2010). Criminologists should shrug off the stigma attached to theorizing that diverges from official accounts and carefully excavate the deep […]

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