Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] CIA.’ Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon’s death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, ‘The Key to Watergate’ (June 16), a light gloss on this book. When the programme finished I went to the back issues of Lobster to re-read the review of Silent […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] trying to create a parallel intelligence system and state department under his control at the National Security Council to by-pass both State and the CIA. If the Watergate affair was, as some believe, an anti-Nixon conspiracy by the CIA, in my view this is a good candidate for the reason behind it; it was […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Tetra was debated in the House of Commons in March 2005.() During the debate several MPs reported their constituents’ complains of ill-health generated by the Tetra masts. Watergate: why Spencer Oliver’s phone was tapped When the Nixon White House ‘plumbers’ broke into the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) they placed taps […]

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Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

Parapolitics: “Generally, covert politics, the conduct of public affairs not by rational debate and responsible decision-making but by indirection, collusion and deceit.” – Peter Dale Scott The Watergate tag is appropriate to Kincora because, like that epic affair, an initial minor offence was the key that unlocked many secret doors. As James Angleton noted: […]

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Western Goals: LA Police Settle For $1.8 million

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] dictator. Although this story is quite widely accepted among the US conspiracy buffs, the exact status it has remains unclear to me. Tackwood linked two of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, McCord and Hunt, to the LAPD. (The various official Watergate enquiries managed to miss all this.) In 1975 the Los Angeles Police Commission (a civilian […]

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Decoding Edward Jay Epstein’s ‘LEGEND’

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] the CIA. Epstein writes for all the world as if none of the revelations about the real nature of American political life that occurred between Dallas and Watergate, had ever existed; and in this innocent world of black hats and white hats he would have us believe that only James Angleton, the erstwhile head […]

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Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, had taken part in the assassination of John Kennedy. The admission would be a ‘limited hang-out’. Hunt sued Spotlight; Marchetti had — or was willing […]

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The Clash of the Icons

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] of national security. Nixon went after the CIA and quick as a flash, E. Howard Hunt (Conein’s comrade from OSS Detachment 202) bungled the bugging of the Watergate Hotel. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who had just been assigned to cover the war on drugs, was approached by the still anonymous Deep Throat, and […]

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Book bargain of the year

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody outside Whitehall did. But we do have ‘Watergate politics’ and have had them since the […]

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