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... terrorist services, which functioned chiefly out of the old Portuguese colonies. Some of these Aginter operatives, including an American, Jay Sablonsky, had already taken part with former CIA Cubans and U.S . Green Berets in the great Guatemalan counter-terror of 1968-71, when some 50,000 people are estimated to have been killed. Aginter Press operatives were also present in Chile for the September 1973 coup. (102) The Portuguese coup of April 1974 forced the Aginter Press OAS operatives to abandon Lisbon (and their files) abruptly. Some of these French rightists plotted vainly with right-wing General Spinola against the Portuguese centrists who enjoyed the support of President ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-15.htm
... means for both Shi'a and Sunni Muslims. ' US/UK invaders deviously encouraged fear among both sects that the other would seek hegemony, inspiring 'polarization and bloody strife' (p . 35). Saddam Hussein joined a failed Ba'athist conspiracy in 1959 to assassinate President Quasim, who had gained power the year before in a nationalist coup that killed the Iraqi royal family and the prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein's faction of the Ba'athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-33.htm
... However, given the record of emerging US/ Soviet detente at this time, the apparent sincerity of the UN effort and JFK's growing preoccupation with developing a joint strategy with the USSR toward the Chinese military threat (p . 441), having wound down the supporting military infrastructure of Operation Mongoose and explicitly ruling out the invasion option, the killing of Che, Moscow's favourite revolutionary, might be seen as somewhat short-sighted. Relentless revisionism Thus, from machine politics to geopolitics, Hersh's relentless revisionism has at least the virtue of logical coherence. However, as I am primarily an historian rather than a Kennedy buff, it is the reading of the administration's international relations that first ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-04.htm
... It loses its only defining quality as 'opposition' or 'counter- Establishment': the language with which it manipulates its followers and the political environment in which it exercises limited, but hopefully expanding, power. The Establishment enjoys the luxury of the ultimate sanctions: the ability to impose its will through brute force. Whereas the Establishment can just kill its opponents or deprive them of the means to work and earn a living, the counter-Establishment can only deprive dissidents of attention, of access to the channels of philosophy, of the rewards of enticement and seduction. This is the principle cause for the rabid sectarianism that prevails in the counter-Establishment. Unless those who dominate ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Nov 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-intentional-fallacy.pdf
... At p. 261 the section on the House Select Committee ends, and from there until the end of the book it's chiefly the continued hunt for evidence about David Attlee Phillips. Fonzi concludes that Phillips was involved in the assassination of John Kennedy -- but while he has evidence that Phillips was involved in the circulation of disinformation about the killing after the fact, oddly enough, of evidence that Phillips was involved in the actual conspiracy there is not a word. Outlined like this it may not sound much, but this is a really good book, one of the best three or four written about the assassination -- as well as being a fascinating account of the business ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-15.htm
... against Bryan Magee (who wrote in a book that people suspected Schoenman of being CIA, planted on Russell), Schoenman wrote of himself: 'The Claimant initiated the Committee of One Hundred which organised civil disobedience against nuclear weapons and US bases in Great Britain. He was founder and director of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Director of the Who Killed Kennedy Committee. ' (See <https://www.big-lies.org/bertrand- russell-peace-tribunal/bertrand-russell-9911-schoenman-v - magee. html>.) 46 Some of the CIA thought (a ) that the Permindex material was KGB in origin, run through ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Following in Uncle Sam's dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK Justice Delayed The Green Anarchist/GAndALF Case John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation Books: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion The Committee The Valkyrie Operation A War of Words: a Cold War Witness The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy Price of Power: The Secret Funding of the Tory Party The Liar: the fall of Jonathan Aitken Eternal Vigilance? 50 years of the CIA Briefly Ideas and Think Tanks in Contemporary Britain: Volume 1 From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/index.htm
... can safely remove the word 'allegedly' from this quotation; but otherwise Kilcullen's remarks are not what one expects from a counterinsurgency expert working for the United States. Similarly, his discussion of Iran notes that 'those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to kill us'; but then he goes on to acknowledge'....that Tehran's motivation to acquire nuclear weapons, sponsor terrorists, launch covert operations and expand its influence across the region may partly have been a completely rational defensive reaction to early US moves in the War on Terror'. Not only was Iran put on notice ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 03 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-blood-year.pdf
... of post-WW2 states. The Soviets, the Americans learned from a defector in 1989, had a monster programme – and maybe the Russians still do, though officially they don't. (Dr. David Kelly was part of an inspection of the program that doesn't exist.) The Rhodesians used anthrax in the war of the 1970s, killed maybe 10,000 black Africans. The apartheid regime in South Africa had a large programme, Operation Coast, though what it amounted to is as murky as the rest of these stories and lots of its funding may simply have been stolen. En route the authors wander into all manner of interesting byways, including the CIA trials in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-151.pdf
... the things I asked Peter Dale Scott which didn't go into the interview in Lobster 7 was why so little work had been done on the Robert Kennedy assassination. After all, at first glance, the 'conspiracy angle' was quite plain: the autopsy proved - without qualification - that Sirhan Sirhan didn't (couldn't have) fired the shots which killed Robert Kennedy. Scott's answer was simple: such research is dangerous: dangerous to the researcher. People are scared. Just how dangerous this case seems to be is demonstrated by the coroner on the case, Thomas Noguchi. In this recent book, Noguchi systematically demolishes the Sirhan-as-lone-assassin thesis and then, in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-18.htm
