Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly given … Read more
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] behind a sign that read ‘US GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS PROHIBIT DISCUSSION OF THIS ORGANISATION OR FACILITY’. Its sabotage operations were run by station chief Theodore ‘Ted’ Shackley, who had led the Brigade 2506 amphibious landings at the Bay of Pigs and organised Operation Mongoose, a series of covert actions that included attempts to murder Fidel Castro.
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] on Stone’s movie JFK, it seemed worth reproducing again. Our concern. From the day of President Kennedy’s assassination, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
US bioweapons in Korea? In Lobster 44, p. 27, I noted the ongoing controversy about the alleged use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War: material from Soviet archives appeared to show that the ‘evidence’ of said biological weapons had been faked to embarrass the Americans; but this ‘evidence’ has since … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] In fact the Nexus articles were Vialls’ fictionalised account of his experience of being a mind control victim; that in New Dawn was Vialls’ analysis of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher. None of them contain any of Vialls political opinions; indeed, we have no idea what Vialls’ political opinions are. Neither, manifestly, does […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the spot when Gandhi was killed. The author claims that the two men were not on the consulate staff and left India on the night of the murder. (Report in Gulf Times 19 September 1998) Staggering on Still unwilling to acknowledge that the entire New Labour project is a turkey, the New Statesman remains […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] once again’. The only Officials who might have been involved with the UCA if it had existed were the element that went IRSP with Costello after the murder of Joe McCann. The few survivors, whom I met regularly, have no recollection of any such organisation let alone meeting them. The leaflets were leaked to […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] chief constable rank or higher – has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.’ (4) Does this seem like a story to you? It did to me but not to the London media. Not a word of […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] me as a victim of inter-gang terrorist rivalry. I believed at the time (as I still do) that the incident was the result of a conspiracy to murder initiated by the Security Service (MI5) and with me as the intended victim. I thought about reporting this to the police after it had happened but […]