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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 8) June 1985 Last| Contents| Next Issue 8 Books Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA Jim Hougan (Random House, US 1984) Those who read Hougan's last book Spooks will know that the arrival or a new one is something of an event. As expected, his latest has so many trails to follow, intriguing little titbits to ponder that one read is insufficient to do justice to what I expect to be a major work. Having read it once- and then as if it was a political thriller (which it is)- I will be brief and leave it to others to gauge its true ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 242 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last| Contents| Next Issue 41 Jim Hougan's Watergate theory tested in court Introduction In January something very unusual happened in America: one of the major items of American parapolitics got aired in court. In the years following the events which led to Nixon's resignation, there were many Watergate books, not least those written by the participants in the drama- Dean, Haldeman, Colson, Ehrlichman and Nixon himself. They all offered up variations on the themes established in 1974/5. But in 1984 Jim Hougan produced one of the great pieces of research in post-war American politics and gave us a completely new account of Watergate ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 204 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-33.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 9) September 1985 Last| Contents| Next Issue 9 Watergate revisited: Hougan's 'Secret Agenda'Introduction No apologies for returning to Jim Hougan's Secret Agenda. As Steve Dorril said in Lobster 8, this is a major event. This essay is in two parts. In the first I make some critical remarks about Secret Agenda's central theses; In the second I speculate about other items on the 'secret agenda' of Watergate. Part 1 Hougan's first book about parapolitics, Spooks (London 1979), was very interesting but very irritating. A shower of wonderful fragments, little of it was sufficiently well documented to be of much use to other ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 201 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Assassins, Narcotics and Watergate Seven years after the event, to its credit, the New York Times finally revealed a little of the story about the wind-up of the CIA's Operation 40 because of its narcotics activities.(25) It did so an part of a series of stories exposing operations for which the CIA's counter-intelligence chief, James Angleton, had been responsible, and Angleton himself has recently confirmed (to author Edward Jay Epstein) the published suggestions that these stories were being leaked by Angleton's chief enemy within the agency, CIA Director, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 192 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-05.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. From 'Political' to 'Human': the Lessons of Watergate and Vietnam The history of the last century suggests that, to challenge these stultifying forces of expansion and repression, traditional processes must themselves be rejuvenated by fresh inputs of human energy. Traditional modes of political organisation, whether reformist or radical, have little chance by themselves of challenging the CIA's 'world-wide infrastructure' of political power. In the developed countries, at least, the traumas of a dramatic or prolonged economic recession, such as we may now very well face, are likely to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 189 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-26.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Secrecy and Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq Robert Parry Arlington (VA): The Media Consortium, 2004; $22.95 (US); p/b Order from <www.secrecyandprivilege.com> This is the book I have enjoyed most since the last Lobster and it is one of the best books I have read on American politics and parapolitics. Robert Parry really is very good indeed: he has the serious investigative journalist's care with sources and that simple, transparent style which lets the reporting speak for itself. This is a survey of Republican politics since Watergate, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 167 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-38.htm
... Today, and Woodward's own protégé at the Post, Janet Cooke. Not surprisingly, the public becomes increasingly cynical as 'news' devolves into 'entertainment'. And along comes Mr. Felt. Who is applauded, but not much examined. Who is he, other than a G-man? Well, he's the fellow who was outraged by the Watergate break-in, which (we're told) was about Nixon's evil spooks breaking into, and bugging, the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate. (Never mind that the only bugging device found inside the DNC was characterized as a broken 'toy' by Felt's own FBI – that's a very different story.) Doesn't it seem a little odd ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 139 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-47.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 12) September 1986 Last| Contents| Next Issue 12 Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. After Watergate: the Chilean-Cuban Exile Alliance There is no doubt that the decline and fall of Richard Nixon in 1973-4, along with the flood of revelations which washed him out of office, meant- at least in the short run- a weakening of U.S. support for reaction overseas. After the Chilean bloodbath of September 1973 the tide turned briefly the other way, as a paralysed Washington did nothing to prevent the fall of Caetano in Portugal (April 1974) and of the Greek colonels (July 1974). By early 1976, following ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 125 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-16.htm
... Artime, as we have seen, had been allegedly dropped from the CIA for their involvement in criminal activities- the latter for smuggling activities from a Costa Rica base owned by Anastasio Somoza, 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, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-08.htm
10. Letters [Lobster #10 (Jan 1986)]
... reading No 8 I thought I'd share the following with you in re: Secret Agenda and, on another topic, Frank Terpil. Throat Secret Agenda is deliberately ambiguous on the subject of Deep Throat's identity. Basically, I conclude that if Throat was a prominent member of the Nixon Administration, well-known to the public at the time of the Watergate affair, then he can only have been General Alexander Haig. But there is no reason to assume that. Throat could just as easily have been a comparative unknown- in which case, he was almost certainly someone whom Post reporter Bob Woodward met during his 65-70 tour of duty in the Navy. As Secret Agenda relates, that ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 84 - 01 Jan 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue10/lob10-10.htm
