Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] spoke in favor of him. In the ‘small world’ department, Angleton helped oversee the CIA liaison to the Warren Commission that included his close friend and former boss, Allen Dulles. Angleton’s top aide Ray Rocca worked closely with the Warren Commission as well. Either Angleton or Rocca appears in Legend in a disguised way […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] and to consider the ‘credibility’ issue as personal, rather than related to matters of state. Kissinger played Nixon’s confusion to his own political advantage. Believing, like his boss, in ‘threat diplomacy’, Kissinger encouraged the president to adopt increasingly drastic measures: ‘Be prepared to take tough escalatory steps ….(mining Haiphong, bombing Cambodia, etc.)…. to fail […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: How the country is run In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister 1 Alan Duncan London: William Collins, 2021, £25, h/b John Newsinger In the Introduction to his Diaries that cover the period from 2016 until 2020, Alan Duncan makes clear that he is well aware that for many of his […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] of international narcotics trafficking and policing of the global drug trade. The Strength of the Pack is the story of how the legacy of Anslinger, the FBN’s boss, and the contradictions between publicly proclaimed policies of interdiction and the actual policies of the national security state, have created an apparatus based on hypocrisy and […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] Trump White House’. She calls him ‘a phoney’, someone who would tell ‘people what they want to hear and would kiss the ass of whoever is the boss’. She goes on that if he had been a character in a film then ‘you would hear thunderclaps in the sky and menacing organ music whenever […]