Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique or Nicaragua, they knew the best part of fuck-all; but they didn’t need to: if X was fighting a socialist government, […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] ofBrian Crozier’s Forum World Features, a CIA front. He co-authored Eurocommunism with the NSIC’s Roy Godson, who ‘helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation to launder the funds’. (26) Haseler has written for Demos. Bob Tyrrell‘Futurologist’ former Chairman of the Henley Centre: a ‘marketing consultancy’ […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Cambridge (UK) 1991, £8.95. The basic rule of politics, domestic and international is that my enemy’s enemy is my friend. That rule ensured that the CIA adopted as allies the opium growers of the Golden Triangle in the 1960s and 70s, and the heroin producing … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] to make a damning indictment of the CIA. All your favourite stories are in here, from Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex-Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
Feedback Mark Taha (see Lobster 21, p. 25) wrote. ‘As someone who never joined any of the groups Larry O’Hara deals with [Lobster 23] but has attended their meetings, reads their publications, once nearly joined, and describes himself as a Libertarian Conservative Nationalist, (sic!) I read his article with interested. I noticed a few errors. … Read more
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Other CIA publications and reports (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/pubs.html) include 1998 reports ‘regarding allegations (specifically in the San Jose Mercury News by Gary Webb) of connections between CIA and the Contras in cocaine trafficking in the US’ (www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/october96/crack_contra_11-1.html) In November 2000 over 16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship and Washington’s role in the overthrow of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] in 1985 by journalists and scholars who sought a centralised repository for documentation obtained through FOIA. Online info includes Electronic Briefing Books (including the CIA and assassinations; Contras, cocaine and covert ops; the death of Che Guevara; India and Pakistan on the nuclear threshold; Tiananmen Square 1989; Guatemalan ‘death squad dossier’; Chile and the […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy International; … Read more
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] this is not a subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) […]
