Churchill and Secret Service

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] Reilly and T. E. Lawrence through to Fitzroy Maclean and Orde Wingate, Churchill enjoyed the company of such men, listening to their stories of secret operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the security of […]

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The covert origins of the Biafran War

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] officials of the South, who were forever building schools and dispensaries, “nigger lovers”. ‘In this topsy turvy world of secret intelligence reports, MI5, pimps, prostitutes, rape and murder, presided over by the Colonial Office and Harold Macmillan, it was not surprising that the Nigerian political leader of great personal integrity and honesty — Awolowo […]

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Kennedy assassination miscellany: Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] it seems an employee of Collins Radio, who had a security clearance, was parked in the car park where Oswald allegedly dropped a jacket shortly after the murder of Officer Tippit. (This is in a volume of the House Select Committee on Assassinations but I don’t have the reference at hand. If someone can […]

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French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Lebanese contacts to the Interior Ministry’s DST, kept silent about Mazurier’s role and about their direct contacts with Abdallah lieutenant Jacqueline Esber. (Esber is suspected of the murder of Yacov Basimantov, 2nd Secretary for political affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Paris, in April 1982). The DGSE also withheld information confirming Abdallah’s key role […]

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Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] pp. 107-111 revealed similar stories. Elphick’s is the first study of the Far East debacle of 1941/1942 to be produced after the release of previously withheld documents. See Tom Bower’s Blind Eye to Murder – Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany – A Pledge Betrayed (1981) p. 283. Bower calls Stokes extreme right.

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The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95   In a year in which Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of … Read more

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Scott et al

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Scott et al I do have a copy of the Scott Report but I simply have not had time to read it. It seems pretty clear from the comments of a number of the knowledgeable minority who have followed this story for the past few years that, for whatever reason, Scott and his team have … Read more

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RAF colluded in Hess flight

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] rambling man who had trudged from the wreck of the Bf110 in Scotland was not in fact Hess, but a ‘double’, substituted by the SS after the murder of Hess. This theory draws some support from the discovery of yet another flight blotted from RAF records in the month of May 1941. Ten days […]

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The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Authority and order are back on the European political agenda. I want to put forward an hypothesis that readers can test against the facts. If I am right, then it opens up a new field of enquiry for parapolitical investigators. Let me state the thesis briefly: the need to create an international infrastructure of authority … Read more

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] – essentially relief that a ‘Marxist’ had been got for the dirty deed. For their journals show that they initially expected to get the blame for the murder and were afraid of the consequences. What Kolky singularly fails to do is (a) explain who these people are – no sociology/psychology, and (b) account for […]

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