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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 44) Winter 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 44 The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate Robert Caro New York and London: Alfred Knopf, 2002, hb $35 (US) £35 (UK) (But in the UK only £22 from Amazon.com) This is the third volume in Caro's biography of LBJ. The first two volumes are wonderful pieces of work, the best biographies I have read; and in many ways this is their equal and deserves the praise it has received. Even if we ignore the story of LBJ, this contains an account of the workings of the US Senate in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 148 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-41.htm
... , the patron of Torrijos' current enemy Orlando Bosch. According to an FBI report on Frank Sturgis in 1972, when Hunt recruited him and Barker for Watergate "sources in Miami say that he is now associated with organised crime activities". (emphasis added) (56) When this FBI claim was made part of the highly publicised Senate Hearings in February 1973 on the nomination of L. Patrick Gray, the New York Times and Washington Post, then locked in battle with Nixon, declined to report it. The press interviews with Artime and Sturgis about their anti-narcotics activities were likewise ignored at the time, as were all the growing indications that the White House, under ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-08.htm
... ; and, at least under the Ford Administration, its contact with foreign parafascism and neo-fascism has never been more overt. Perhaps the key elements in this lobby today are- on the outside- the various committees organised from the public relations office of Marvin Liebman on Madison Avenue, and- on the inside- the Congressional power mustered by Senator Strom Thurmond. This coalition is strengthened inside Congress by the pay-off system refined most recently by the unregistered South Korean lobbyist, Tongsun Park, and outside it by the old military-industrial coalition, the American Security Council. All four elements have worked in collaboration since the days when Chinese nationalist gold, via a Mafia-tainted public relations firm, first ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 70 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-19.htm
... October 1980 between a claimed emissary of the Khomeini government and the chief foreign policy adviser of the Reagan-Bush Presidential Campaign, Richard V. Allen, at which a deal was discussed to hold the hostages until after the election ensuring Carter's defeat. Also at the meeting were Allen's aide, Laurence Silberman, and Robert McFarlane, then an aide to Senator John Tower of the Senate Armed Services Committee and later Reagan's third National Security Adviser and a key figure in Irangate. An earlier but less detailed report of this same meeting ran in the Washington Post on November 29, 1986 (Robert Woodward and Walter Pincus). The meeting took place in a Washington, D.C. hotel not long ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 69 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-01.htm
... into Los Angeles during the 1980s. Parallel stories have appeared in provincial papers before, and been ignored. But San Jose isn't in Silicon Valley for nothing; the Mercury News boosted Webb's stories with its state-of-the-art website and a political storm began to blow. Soon Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus was calling for an investigation, and the Senate Intelligence Committee had scheduled hearings. Belatedly, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times all recognized that, this time around, they couldn't ignore the story. But instead of investigating the CIA, they investigated their fellow journalists at the Mercury News. Quoting each other's stories to strengthen their common case, editorialists, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 68 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-08.htm
... to Gestapu. (34) In 1957-58, CIA infiltrated arms and personnel in support of the PRRI-Permesta regional rebellions against Sukarno. These operations were nominally covert, even though an American plane and pilot were captured, and the CIA efforts were accompanied by an offshore task force of the U.S. Seventh Fleet. (35) In 1975 a Senate Select Committee studying the CIA discovered what it called 'some evidence of CIA involvement in plans to assassinate President Sukarno'; but, after an initial investigation of the November 1957 assassination attempt at Cikini, the Committee did not pursue the matter. (36) On August 1, 1958, after the failure of the CIA-sponsored PRRI-Permesta regional rebellions ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-01.htm
... Drugs One of the biggest stories in the six months since the last Lobster has been the CIA-deals-crack story. The Web site at ciadrugs@mars.galstar.com has an enormous amount of information, including an important piece by Robert Parry, 'Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.' Another important background piece is Jack Blum's testimony to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last year, which is reproduced in Covert Action Quarterly no. 59. However, in my opinion the two best pieces on the CIA-drugs issue which appeared since the last Lobster are Daniel Brandt and Steve Badrich's below, and first, the affidavit issued by Peter Dale Scott. CIA and Drug-Trafficking by Contra Supporters Peter Dale ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 52 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-07.htm
... a touch-- transmits a tiny electronic charge plus an ultra-sonic signal tone which for a short while will disturb the time orientation of the person affected.' (39) At present there is no evidence that RHIC-EDOM is real. To my knowledge, the only official questioning of a CIA representative concerning these techniques occurred in 1977, during Senate hearings on CIA drug testing. Senator Richard Schweiker had the following interchange with Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, an important MKULTRA administrator: Schweiker: Some of the projects under MKULTRA involved hypnosis, is that correct? Gottleib: Yes. Schweiker: Did any of these projects involve something called radio hypnotic intracerebral control, which is a combination, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-01.htm
... of his former Labour ministerial colleagues set up the Social Democratic Party (See Lobster 31 et seq). Attending the Jerusalem conference in 1979 were George Bush (father of George W. with at that time only the CIA directorship on his political CV), his former Langley colleague Ray Cline, Perle, Ledeen, Congressman Jack Kemp, Senator John Danforth and Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson. The last was a key figure in the US military-industrial complex, often known as the Senator for Boeing. A passionate supporter of Israel and fierce opponent of détente, he was a politician who gave early encouragement to Perle, Ledeen, Frank Gaffney (a member of the Reagan administration and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 46 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 47) Summer 2004 Last| Contents| Next Issue 47 Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way Colin Challen MP First, buy your senator It wasn't long after their election in 2000 that the business backgrounds of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney became mired in controversy. Cheney's business career was not as long as Bush's, but it personifies the role of crony capitalism endemic to U.S. politics. Cheney's role as Halliburton's (1) Chief Executive between 1995 and 2000, was but one connection among many in the long history of Halliburton's intimate reliance on politicians and government. In appointing his Vice Presidential running mate, Bush was said to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 45 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-19.htm
