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... and when she became leader of the Tory Party she was given tutorials by a group of retired spooks, which included Brian Crozier. Little wonder that she once told an interviewer that she'd read Frederick Forsyth's execrable The Fourth Protocol twice. Forsyth's novel, you may recall, describes a Kinnock-led Labour Party getting into office only to suffer an internal coup from the left, controlled by the KGB. The reality, however, was that from KGB defectors Gordievsky and Kuzichkin- notably the latter, who disappeared without trace- our spooks learned that the KGB and GRU (Soviet military intelligence) were generally useless, their personnel chiefly concerned with enjoying themselves overseas, keeping their heads down and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-13.htm
... resistance' to fight a Labour Government, and was talking of assassinating Tony Benn should be become Prime Minister. (176) Perhaps we are wrong to take those proposals of Neave seriously. Maybe so; but the 1970s was a decade during which the background hum of paramilitary activity on the right grew pretty loud at times. Talk of coups and the 'private armies' may well have served as well as, and in place of, a real coup and real, operational, 'private armies'. The 1974-76 period as a protracted psy ops against the Labour Party is by no means implausible, as this essay should have demonstrated. This is certainly Wallace's view of the period ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-11.htm
... close friend of Alexandre de Marenches and was a frequent visitor to the SDECE's headquarters during Marenches' time. The Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung, the political trust attached to Strauss' Christian Social Union party, is an important group in international parapolitical manipulation. Active in Latin America for the Contras,(3) supporting Mobuto in Zaire, involved in the Fiji coup in 1987, it was caught diverting state development aid from Germany into right-wing party coffers in Ecuador in the same year. Strauss and CSU were the main beneficiaries of identified Pinay Circle activities; i.e. the promotion of right-wing European politicians through Brian Crozier, Robert Moss, Fred Luchsinger of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and Gerhard Lowenthal, anchorman ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 23 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-03.htm
... Andrew about 'agents' in the Labour Party and trade unions: KGB officer under cover talks to this or that MP/union official and claims them as 'agents'. This makes him (or her but usually him) look good, justifies his/her overseas posting and enables him/her to claim some more expenses. A right-wing coup A meeting held between Lord Mountbatten of Burma, several senior journalists and government advisers has long been the foundation for claims that a plot existed in 1968 to depose Wilson and to replace him with an interim government led by Mountbatten. 'Senior journalists and government advisors?' As far as we know the meeting in 1968 was actually between Mountbatten ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 23 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-103.pdf
... and Coolidge worked for the New York (and Republican Party supporting) law firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, in New York. Frank Wisner of OPC/CIA had worked there before he went into intelligence, as had Kermit Roosevelt's grandfather. (5) (Kermit Roosevelt, who is perhaps best known for his role in the coup in Iran) went round America's largest corporations asking, "Are you patriotic?", raising money for the CIA front companies and securing the use of their trusts and foundations. (6) Directors of Forum World Features were: the late Samuel Culver Park Jnr., Chairman of the Whitney Communications Corporation and a trustee of Whitney's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-13.htm
... note 12 above), Black (note 15 above) and Johnson (note 16 above). Matt Taibbi, 'The Big Takeover', at <www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/26793903/the_big_takeover> is notable for an intell-igible account of CDOs and CDSs and his view of what has happened since the crash as a kind of financial coup. This view is also held by Simon Johnson in his 'The Quiet Coup'. See note 16. Michael Lewis is the author of Liars Poker, about the related events in the 1980s. His 'The End' at <www.portfolio.com> examines the road to ruin through the eyes of the tiny minority in the US financial system who ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-14.htm
... Acland, who saw its purpose as encouraging moral revival. When a number of members left to join the Labour Party, C. A. Smith became its chair, succeeding the Quaker, Acland. In those days the ILP was still a force to be reckoned with on the left of the Labour Party and Smith's move was quite a coup for Common Wealth. But as the cold war developed in the late 40's Smith's anti-Stalinism moved him sharply to right and he became fiercely anti-Soviet. Hulton made the same shift. He had been deeply affected by what was taking place in Poland and used his personal column and his journal the World Review-- edited by a Polish exile ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-01.htm
... 1945-75. (Vietnam War Internet Project (www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/shwv/shwvhome.html) CIA- Electronic Document Release Center http://www.foia.ucia.gov/ Includes electronic access to previously released documents: Popular Document Collection (Bay of Pigs reports; Atomic Spies-Rosenbergs; Oleg Penkovsky; Gary Powers; POW/MIA; Guatemala- chronicles CIA involvement in the 1954 coup; Human Rights in Latin America; UFOs). Your Rights- Public Rights of Access to CIA info, including the FOIA and electronic FOIA amendment; the Privacy Act; E.O. 12958 which provides for the review of classified docs and access on a limited basis for historians and former presidential appointees. Legal Issues- info about court ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-28.htm
... deep, not alone in Father's relationship with his followers, but also in America's relationship with its Negroe citizens. This would be the shame of America' (emphasis added). Jones goes to Cuba In January 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship, and seized power in Cuba. Land reforms followed within a few months of the coup, alienating foreign investors and the rich. By Summer, therefore, Cuba was in the midst of a low-intensity counter-revolution, with sabotage operations mounted from within and outside the country. Within a year of Castro's ascension, by January of 1960, mercenary pilots and anti-Castroites were flying bombing missions against the regime. Meanwhile, in Washington, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-01.htm
60. Re: [Lobster #54 (Winter 2007/8)]
... coverage of Iraq. PEJ's survey of over 400 mainstream media outlets shows that only 7% have 'delved into the issue of PSC forces more than once, beyond a brief mention in a story about casualties or incidents.' A recent High Court case in which Teodoro Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea, unsuccessfully sued the companies behind the failed coup to overthrow him gives some insight into the murky world of mercenaries and their financial backers.(28) One well known name that keeps cropping up is that of Mark Thatcher, although, thanks to the efforts of his mother, he 'never spent a day in jail, despite investing in an aircraft that the plotters intended to use ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-17.htm
