The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] go to her own funeral without her purse – or a properly straightened nose. What I must do is what every doctor takes an oath to do. Kill cancer – one of Christ’s covered-up commandments. Primarily because this group desires to kill me. And that is self-defense – and it is the primary law […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] Serra. (10) Google’s Italian–to-English translation of the Corriere text showed that the original story did not claim that Stasi files showed the KGB told the Bulgarians to kill the Pope at all. As Google’s mechanical translator put it, the key section said: ‘the letters, in which the intelligence agencies of the DDR they ask […]

The Dirty War, and, The SAS in Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

The Dirty War Martin Dillon, Hutchinson, London, 1990. The SAS in Ireland Raymond Murray, Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland … Read more

More JFK Assassination books

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] ‘Chicago Connection’, and some fascinating material about Abraham Bolden, the black agent who appears to have been set-up by the Service shortly after the assassination. Roberts, Craig. Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks at Dealey Plaza. : Typhoon Press Christian Patriot Press, 1994. vii and 252pps. Illustrated, bibliography, index. Roberts, a former US Marine sniper, […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

In February this year, unnoticed by the press, a funeral took place in a quiet Sussex village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, … Read more

Killing Detente: the Right Attacks the CIA

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

Anne Hessing Cahn Penn State University Press, 1998, $19.95, p/b   The ‘Team B’ episode of 1976/7, the subject of this book, which saw a group of the CIA’s critics on the right being given access to the Agency’s raw intelligence data, was one of the key moments in the counter-attack against detente with the … Read more

Silent Conspiracy: Inside the Intelligence Services in the 1990s

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] little to the sum of knowledge on the issue, it could well have been left alone until more was known.’ On the other hand in ‘Shoot to Kill’, the author is convinced. Dorril writes: ‘Those who accuse the British government of a shoot to kill policy in Northern Ireland, in the sense of a […]

9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] State Department Watch List. (14) As he had done earlier in Egypt, the sheikh “issued a fatwa in America that permitted his followers to rob banks and kill Jews.”(15) In November 1990, three of Mohamed’s trainees conspired together to kill Meir Kahane, the racist founder of the Jewish Defense League. The actual killer, El […]

Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more

Feedback

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] received wisdom, it seems, you can say pretty much what you like.Richard Metzger, interviewing someone called Howard Bloom, asks why it is that all Arabs want to kill Jews; Bloom explains that it’s not all Arabs – it’s all Moslems.’ Again, Edwards is being startlingly dishonest. Metzger’s question never mentions ‘killing Jews’. It is […]

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