DEA, Crime and the Press Today

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] interview with one Clifton DeMotte about Edward Kennedy and Chappaquiddick – had been suggested to Hunt, not by the White House, but by Robert Bennett himself. (60) Senator Baker’s Minority Report about this and other CIA aspects of Watergate was, in turn, grossly distorted by the Post. (61). This is hardly surprising; the Baker […]

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UFOs in the White House Pantry: The Rockefeller Initiative

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] is classified, and the US government will neither confirm nor deny their existence. The Human Potential Foundation In October 1992, the Human Potential Foundation (HPF), chaired by Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, embarked on a project to deliver to the White House compelling evidence of the reality of UFOs, in the hope of […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] accused the CIA of sabotaging weapons inspections in Iraq by refusing to co-operate fully with the UN and withholding crucial information about Saddam Hussein’s arsenal. Led by Senator Carl Levin, the Democrats accused the CIA of making an assessment that the inspections were unlikely to be a success and then ensuring they would not […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Non-lethality Policy Review Group, led by Major General Chris S. Adams, USAF (retd.), former Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Command. (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility […]

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The Clash of the Icons

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

Political activist Daniel Ellsberg and Professor Alfred McCoy have something special in common. Based on their actions and accomplishments of nearly thirty years ago, they have achieved the status of icons within the subculture of what passes for the New Left. Icon Ellsberg became a celebrity in 1971 after he leaked The Pentagon Papers, an … Read more

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The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] a company devoted to producing better equipped American children, making educational software available to schools – at a price. Consultants to the firm include Bill Brock, former senator and chair of the Republican National Committee; Bob Stearns, a George W. appointee to a Texas technology board; Peter Su, a former presidential campaign advisor, and […]

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The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] the Gemstone File. Words cannot adequately describe its unsettling aura of psychopathology. Much of the page features a photocopied portrait shot of Joan Kennedy (at the time, Senator Edward Kennedy’s wife), as originally printed in Good Housekeeping. Above it, Roberts reproduces the magazine’s masthead, then pens in the following indicia: ‘PUBLISHED BY HEARST CORP. […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] I presume, in seeing Richard Tomlinson rubbished, which chapter 16 of the Paget report does.) Israeli lobby In December 2006 a letter from James Abourezk, former US Senator from South Dakota, about the Israeli lobby in the US, began circulating on the Net. Its most striking paragraph was this: ‘I can tell you from […]

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Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] concern about foreign influence or interference.(13) The Lugar Report I draw these criteria from The Backlash Against Democracy Assistance, a 2006 report prepared by the NED for Senator Richard G. Lugar(14) who is dumbfounded that all the US’s largesse is rejected. But even though the report tells us that democracy building as a policy […]

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American Friends: the Anti-CND Groups

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] previously mentioned Coalition For Peace Through Strength. (CPS-US) Also speaking at the March 1982 British meeting were Morton Blackwell and Dick Minard. Blackwell was chief advisor to Senator Gordon Humphrey and Exec. Director of ECUD. He led the day-to-day assault on Warnke and represented, perhaps,’ the heart and soul of the ultra-conservative arm of […]

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