Curious Liaisons

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Alien Liaison Timothy Good Century, London, 1991 Please note: all the telephone conversations referred to by the author in this essay have been tape-recorded. Published in May 1991, the thesis in Good’s book is (a) that alien space craft have landed and/or crashed on earth; and (b) that the U.S. government is concealing this fact … Read more

Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

Introduction From 1935 until the outbreak of the Second World War Winston Churchill was a determined and vociferous opponent of the British government’s policy of appeasing Hitler. In the popular imagination Churchill’s prominence at the head of the anti-appeasement movement has become a picture of the prophet crying in the wilderness. A fantasy encouraged by … Read more

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 United States Anna Anderson was not the only Anastasia claimant; her chief rival in the United States was Mrs Eugenia Smith. Smith’s claims, although considered shaky by the best scholars, were powerfully supported by the testimony of one Michael M. Goleniewski, who hailed from Poland yet claimed to … Read more

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

Part 1 Issue 24 of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (Summer 1985) is chiefly devoted to recent activities of U.S. government agents and agents provocateurs inside radical and labour organisations: the ‘sanctuary movement’, the Native American movement and one industrial dispute, are analysed as case studies. They are preceded by a long essay, “The New … Read more

Text of a letter from Dr Hugh Thomas re: Fred Holroyd

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

Mid Glamorgan Health Authority Merthyr & Cýnon Valley Health Unit Prince Charles Hospital Merthyr Tydfil, C47 9DT Telephone: Merthyr Tydfil (0685) 721721 Our ref: WHT/EW 23rd March 1990 Mr Fred Holroyd 15 Sandleigh Road Leigh-on-Sea Essex SS9 1JT To Whom It May Concern Re: Fred Holroyd I was senior Consultant Surgeon at Musgrave Park Hospital … Read more

Northern Ireland redux

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like … Read more

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case James DiEugenio Sheridan Square Press, New York, 1992 Scott Newton The JFK industry continues to flourish. One of its most recent as well as more interesting products is DiEugenio’s study of the assassination and the Garrison Commission. The book has its flaws and recycles a good deal … Read more

Trying to kill Nasser

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

The drip feed of information on the attempted assassination of President Nasser continues. In a recent episode of the Channel 4 TV series ‘The End of Empire’, Sir Anthony Nutting, former Minister of State at the Foreign Office, who later resigned over Suez, recalled that he had been “horrified” to receive a telephone call from … Read more

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Seattle, Washington April 25, 1972 Re: Harold Adrian Russell Philby, Also Known As “Kim” Philby The Wednesday, October 13, 1971, edition of “Kodumaa,” Number 41, (677), contained on page 3 an interview with KIM PHILBY. “Kodumaa” (Homeland) is published in Estonian by the Soviet Committee for … Read more

Neural Manipulation by Remote Radar

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

This essay has been written using recently declassified records on Project Pandora released on 19 December 1994 to the author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s … Read more

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