Justice Delayed

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] MKULTRA Program, which remains very much a mystery, primarily because its chief operating officer, Dr Sid Gottlieb, destroyed the majority of MKULTRA documents in 1973 during the Watergate scramble to plug leaks and obliterate history. Helping Gottlieb destroy these documents was the then Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms. But due to one family’s […]

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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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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] Tetra was debated in the House of Commons in March 2005.(12) 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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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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Puppet Masters: the political use of terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] 40 years Italy’s political system has been subverted by US-funded parapolitics, demonstrating the universal application of the late Ralph J. Gleason’s First Law of American Politics After Watergate: no matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you could possibly imagine. In Italy’s case, not only was it worse, it […]

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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 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA Shane O’Sullivan1 New York: Skyhorse Books, 2018; £20.00 h/b; 536 pages, notes, index Robin Ramsay So what can a major reappraisal of Watergate tell us in 2018 that we didn’t know before? Surprisingly little about the major events. But this isn’t the fault of the author, who […]

Colin Wallace – an assessment

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]

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The Kennedys: An American Drama

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] has the distinction of being just about the only serious magazine on the American left which continued to take the assassination seriously all the way through to Watergate. Ramparts published Peter Dale Scott’s Dallas, Watergate and Beyond, one of the seminal essays on the subject. Cowitz know that it wasn’t Oswald and Sirhan. This […]

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