The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Orford Ness had a very extensive array of Over the Horizon radar antennae that were used to track Soviet communications and monitor Soviet missile tests. The pirate station could, therefore, have been either interfering with this work or listening in to it on behalf of the eastern bloc. Page 30 […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. This has been accompanied by significant investment in naval and air power, including the construction of an aircraft carrier, short range missile systems and fighter jets. All this has fed anxieties that Chinese efforts to develop a 7 Woodward p. 3 8 Woodward p. 31 Loyd Eskildson, ‘2027: […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 102 or 103 33 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 85 or 86 28 Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to cover the subject through many subsequent […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] source of the Soviets’ belief that LBJ was involved in the assassination. One possibility is Robert Kennedy, who got to know Soviet diplomatic personnel during the Cuban Missile Crisis. 72 or 73 25 contact with Colin Wallace. Because the scandal has never been properly examined officially, the story keeps cropping-up. The latest instalment is […]

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