The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For … Read more

Dr Mary’s Monkey

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] Harvey Oswald. The underground lab is ‘known Mafia asset’ David Ferrie’s mouse research where, says Baker, they were trying to develop a rapid-acting cancer with which to kill Fidel Castro (which is – just – within the extant parameters of the known attempts to kill him, not much crazier than some of the CIA’s […]

Coroner to the Stars

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Coroner to the Stars Thomas T. Noguchi (Corgi Books, London 1984) One of the things I asked Peter Dale Scott which didn’t go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the ‘conspiracy angle’ was quite plain: the autopsy … Read more

Israel and the Clash of Civilisations

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] blame for the failure to foresee what would happen in post-war Iraq.’(3) Steele quotes Douglas Hurd, former Foreign Secretary: ‘Blair and his colleagues sent British troops to kill and be killed in Iraq without proper planning … An inquiry is certainly needed to make sure this cannot happen again.’ But immediately under this Steele […]

Animal Pharm

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] with their lawyers and political muscle, are devoted to maintaining the ‘wisdom’ of this finding. One common example of this faulty wisdom is the frequent demand to kill badgers because they are believed to be the source of TB in cattle. Not so. The almost endless resources of government and the pharmaceutical industries were […]

The Secret War

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Books The Secret War: an account of the sinister activities along the border involving Gardai, RUC, British Army and SAS Patsy McArdle (Mercier Press, Dublin 1984) McArdle is a journalist with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Journalists sometimes write really good books, but McArdle’s is a stinker, little more than a jumbled collection of recycled … Read more

War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] Habsburgs and Intermarium since the 1920s.() Seeking, perhaps, to pursue this opening – given the silence from the British – the German resistance made two attempts to kill Hitler (13 and 21 March 1943). Meanwhile the Hitler-Stalin proposal flickered back into life. In June 1943 serious talks were held in Stockholm and there was […]

Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] name of Lady Bird) purchased the Austin radio station KTBC in 1953, it was first located in the Brown Building, and later moved to the Brown-owned Dris kill building for which. KTBC did not have to pay. (11) The Texas political culture of the time was described thus: ‘What must surely be the most […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more

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