Genesis, the First Book of Revelations

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

Publications Genesis, the First Book of Revelations David Wood Baton £15 This is the second big seller in Britain on the Rennes mystery and others are on the way. Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by Henry Lincoln and co. started the craze by proclaiming the existence of a secret masonic society – the Priory … Read more

Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew nothing … Read more

Trust no one: the secret world of Sidney Reilly

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Richard B. Spence Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003 , $29.95, h/b   Boasting over 1800 footnotes and a magnificent bibliography (including texts published in Turkmenistan) this would be awarded A for Application if such a prize existed in academia. The author, Professor of History at the University of Idaho, appears to be something of an … Read more

Blinded by the light: Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

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

The secret of the 1917 ‘Balfour declaration’

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

The British government was by no means the innocent victim of nefarious Zionist influence in offering them their ‘promised land’ in Palestine. The way this story is now told plays on the myth of an all-powerful secret Jewish conspiracy behind the scenes. Well, there was a ‘conspiracy’ of sorts but it was not a Jewish … Read more

Malcolm Kennedy: secrecy ruling

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Abstract The Tribunal established to investigate complaints about phone-tapping and the activities of the intelligence agencies has, at its first ever public hearing, quashed rules made by the Home Secretary forcing the tribunal to hold all its hearings in secret. However, the Tribunal procedure remains too secret, and its decisions cannot be appealed. Malcolm Kennedy’s … Read more

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

You might remember the red sofas, leather Chesterfields recovered in quieter fabric. You might remember that the talking didn’t end at any specific time, unique in an era when all television channels closed down at night. You might remember Oliver Reed getting drunk, although he was hardly the only disruptive guest. Reading Norman Baker’s book … Read more

From Parapolitics to Deep Politics: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Peter Dale Scott University of California Press (paperback edition, with new preface) 1996, $14.95   ‘The key to understanding Deep Politics is the distinction I propose between traditional conspiracy theory, looking at conscious secret collaborations towards shared ends, and deep political analysis, defined as “the study of all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or … Read more

Another layer of cover: Nick Cook’s ‘The Hunt for Zero Point’ examined

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

Nick Cook is a defence journalist of high repute, having been an Aviation Editor for the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly for fourteen years. When he says that UFO reports conceal a new technology with the potential to change the world, a technology kept secret by the US military-industrial complex for decades, he should be worth … Read more

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