Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
Jeffrey M. Bale In this essay, and the notes and sources that accompany it, there are many words from languages – French, Spanish, Portugese etc – which should have various accents on them. These accents have been omitted to simplify type-setting. This essay was first published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology and is reprinted … Read more
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
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
Brothers: The hidden history of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20 Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Greg Philo and David Miller Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2001, £16.99 I asked the publisher for this on the basis of the title and the authors: Greg Philo has written many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the … Read more
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] this before and I used to talk about a two or three-tiered conspiracy in which what might happen would be A learns that B is going to kill the President; and whereas A normally might be able to stop it, A’s culpability is allowing B to go ahead and do it. That’s why I […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Dan E. Moldea W.W. Norton, London and New York 1995 I didn’t notice this when it was first published and came across a remaindered copy. Unlike the JFK murder, this case is absolutely straightforward. The forensic evidence is quite clear and inarguable: Robert Kennedy was shot three times at point-blank range – i.e. a range … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] plotter. Hunt pulled out of the plot on learning that ‘alcoholic psycho’ Bill Harvey would be one of the participants. ‘There were probably dozens of plots to kill Kennedy, because everybody hated Kennedy but the public….’, Hunt’s son says. ‘The question is which one of them worked? My dad has always said, Thank God […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] (Conservative Digest February 1985). McDonald, a Bircher, was killed when KAL 007 was shot down. Predictably, some of the US far-right think it was shot down to kill McDonald. He thus became a ‘martyr’. It’s an ill wind …. McDonald was the founder of Western Goals, and that organisation overlaps with IFF. Western Goals […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy Phillip Willan Phillip Willan’s Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy, (Constable, London, 1991) is a detailed and interesting book, dealing in a thorough (if partially flawed) way with a fascinating subject. It covers a wide array of interlocking subjects including the infamous P2 … Read more
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] The MIHOP ‘sceptics’ presented in this book want us to believe that the US military-intelligence complex which, two years before, could not persuade itself to try to kill Bin Laden in Afghanistan because of the risk of civilian casualties, pulled off a stunt like this. The meaning of Northwoods? We are prisoners of our […]
