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... time, had been named by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics as the man behind the heroin trade of anti-Castro Cubans. Torrijos, too, was at least as much a political as a narcotics target: he and Chilean President Salvador Allende were the only heads of state to defy the CIA-enforced ban on friendly relations with Castro's Cuba. Barker and 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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-08.htm
52. Sources [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... www.christopherketcham.com>. Who knew? And when? Reporters for Uncle Sam Two substantial critical studies of the group Reporters without Frontiers have appeared recently. Ostensibly concerned with press freedom, it is part funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (bit of a clue there!) and is part of the US attempts to destabilise Cuba and Venezuela. See Salim Lamrani, 'The deceit of Reporters Without Borders',(7 ) and Michael Barker's 'Media Watchdog as Democracy Manipulator'.(8 ) PhD student Barker has interesting essays in the National Endowment for Democracy/manipulating-civil-society field on his blog (9 )and at the Global Research site. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-43.htm
... sponsored coup d'état were deep and far reaching. For the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, 'its triumph confirmed the belief....that covert operations offered a safe, inexpensive substitute for armed force in resisting Communist inroads in the Third World. ' 1 This ultimately led to complacency in tactics and methods, and the subsequent failure in Cuba in 1961. Guatemalan politics was also transformed, but not along the path of 'success' – as the CIA operation was codenamed – and democracy but one of bloodshed, dictatorship and tragedy. As the Guatemalan ambassador to the US at the time, Guillermo Toriello, stated in his introduction to the book Guatemala in Rebellion: 'The complicity ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-015.pdf
... pagee@bevconsult.com> Subject: Re: recent allegations Hello, Robin, I remember Lobster very well and am happy that you are continuing to publish it. Concerning Mitrokin (sic), I believe someone sent me a review of the book some months ago that I found in a large pile of mail after three months in Cuba. I read it and put it aside without action as I've done for some years on those kinds of allegations. I used to go through them refuting point by point and then hope that the original publication would publish my reply. But refusals were fairly regular. Finally I decided that it wasn't worth taking the time. On Mitrokin ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-29.htm
... officers led safe if not sane lives. Others took the risks." Agents usually made contact with case officers rather than vice-versa, usually out of fear of having their travel prospects to the US curtailed. This was especially so in Mexico City where Beck went to handle double agent cases after the US spooks were thrown out of Cuba. He writes: "Any case officer contemplating a double agent operation assumes the opposition knows of his or her CIA connections and that he or she may be a plant. What ensues may be likened to a game of chess in which moves and counter moves are studied, projected and applied. That is the simplest description of what ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-08.htm
... the 'hearts and minds' approach that the British laid particular claim to in the post-1945 period. As Porch points out, these new humanitarian concerns could sometimes have ironic consequences! At least one of the pretexts for the US war with Spain in 1898 was revulsion at the brutal counterinsurgency methods used by the Spanish General Valeriano Weyler in Cuba. The methods which the Americans went on to use to suppress insurrection in the Philippines were so brutal that they 'made Weyler seem like a pacifist'. Porch is especially good on the French influence on modern US counterinsurgency thinking. He discusses the influence of David Galula, a veteran of the Algerian War. Galula, he writes, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 05 Aug 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-counterinsurgency.pdf
... establishment of a new Latin American drug network with international fascist connections, under the leadership of Alberto Sicilia Falcon, a Cuban exile. When arrested by Mexican police in 1975, as the chief of Mexico's largest heroin ring, Sicilia told police that he was a CIA protege, trained at Fort Jackson as a partisan in the secret war against Cuba. According to Mexican authorities, he was also working in Chile against the socialist government of Salvador Allende until he returned to Miami in early 1973. He also told the Mexican police of a special 'deal' with the CIA. They eased his way for heroin shipments and, in return, his organisation smuggled weapons for terror-groups ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-11.htm
... D. Walter in Journal of American History, March 1986 This makes an interesting companion piece to pp2/3 of the P.D . Scott essay in Lobster 12 . Anslinger was the primary originator of the basic US foreign policy move of accusing your enemies of running drugs into the otherwise innocent bodies of the US citizenry (China, Cuba, Nicaragua), while allowing your political allies (KMT, anti-Castro Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the American public, rather than the content of his anti-communist bullshit or his acquiescence in drug-running into the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Apr 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue13/lob13-16.htm
... | Cover Image Our Searchlight problem An Incorrect Political Memoir The Big C: Further notes on 'conspiracy' Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination JFK bits and pieces The aliens on the grassy knoll Mind control and microwave update Notes from the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92. Part 2 Miscellaneous Books: Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case Big Boys Rules: The Secret Struggle against the IRA International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War The Dust Has Never Settled The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and their Influence on Nazi Ideology Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the news in an age of propaganda Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue24/index.htm
... and Superempire: Britain, America and the world Freedom from America: For safeguarding democracy and the economic and cultural integrity of peoples Anti-totalitarianism: The left-wing case for a neo-conservative foreign policy The New Public Diplomacy: Soft power in international relations Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the murder of JFK Pieces without an author's name are by the editor Parish Notices Credit where credit is due Like many other small magazines, Lobster would probably not exist were it not for Central Books, who have been distributing Lobster since issue 16, generating that bit of extra sales revenue to help keep this curious enterprise afloat ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/index.htm
