Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] MI6 head Stuart Menzies. 65 While working for Interdoc, ‘with the other chaps’ Ellis put together an “action group”, keeping it “private and confidential as publicity would kill it”. (Stevenson 1985 p. 272) What this “action group” did isn’t known. Ellis was a contributor to Crozier’s 1970 anthology We Will Bury You which included […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, Susan Williams still cannot tell us who did kill US Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, in 1961. Nor how it was done. Nor, for certain, that the plane crash in the Congo which killed him and […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, plotted with the Mexican Los Zetas drug cartel to kill the Saudi ambassador on orders from forces within the Iranian State.2 The source of these allegations was a Mexican gangster, already facing criminal charges on an […]

An Inconvenient Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair by Miles Goslett

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the defence industry (London: Sphere Books, 1990) p. 191 9 Perhaps, we may then speculate, that Dr Kelly also used ‘his exceptional powers of scientific understanding’ to kill himself by using his weak right arm to sever the ulnar artery, one which rarely permits sufficient bleeding to cause death. Would a scientist with equally […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke inspection rules at arms factory supplying Saudis in Yemen war’.75 Two things are going on here. The […]

Chris Hani book copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 75-78 Nicholson discusses documents found by one Christelle Terreblanche as part of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. These apparently discuss a plot by SAIMR to kill Dag Hammarskjöld. He writes: In 2014, Oxford scholar Dr Susan Williams updated her book Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, and referred to the papers that Terreblanche had found, […]

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