Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] became enmeshed in pre-assassination Oswald operations, and possibly the plot as well. As for the pre-assassination operations, one clue as to what is being concealed is the suppressed content in successive alterations of a single key document, the DFS account of Silvia Durán’s statement when arrested on November 23, 1963. There are at least […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
As I write this in late May 1998, the world is watching two Indonesian traditions, locked in a dramatic struggle to determine that country’s future. One, representing one of the world’s most tolerant Muslim cultures, seeks a non-violent return towards the democratic civil society that prevailed in the early 1950s. The other apparently hopes to … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
‘Rug merchants’ was the epithet former White House Chief of Staff Don Regan used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast … Read more
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones London: Yale University Press, 2002, £22.50 Know Your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World Percy Craddock London: John Murray, 2002, £25 Jeffreys-Jones is Professor of American History at Edinburgh University and writes on the American intelligence services. His book’s subtitle … Read more