Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] I thought! And so did every other liberal I knew at the time. Surprisingly, this was also the point-of-view of James McCord, the right-wing evangelist and former CIA officer who led the break-in team into the Watergate. In a series of odd ‘newsletters’, written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy […]

Who Owns Agca? Plots to Kill the Pope

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] buy the Soviet Union’s attempts to lay the blame at the CIA’s door.(8) Sterling describes in some detail the attempts by the West’s governments/intelligence agencies (especially the CIA – of course) to bury this ‘Bulgarian connection’. She professes to find this puzzling, probably demonstrating a refusal by such agencies to acknowledge the real nature […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] study. () Down on the farm Hailed as Britain’s first feature length cartoon, the 1955 production of Animal Farm turns out to have been funded by the CIA, using American newsreel (March of Time), documentary and feature film producer Louis de Rochemont as a conduit.() Having provided the money, the CIA also had ‘psy […]

Book Reviews

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Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] the Falkland Islands”. As a thesis it has its antecedents. Peter Dale Scott (and others) have demonstrated that the Pentagon Papers were systematically skewed to show the CIA in a favourable light vis a vis the Vietnam War – always right, and ignored by the politicians, the military and the foreign policy establishment who […]

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] San Jose Mercury News which claimed that cocaine being consumed in black areas of cities in California was being brought in by a network linked to the CIA via the war against Nicaragua. Quite why the Mercury stories created a storm and this book did not remains a mystery to me, for there is […]

ELF update

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] important. If true, this is the most important weapons story since 1945. I mentioned an American — Harlan Girard — I had met who claimed that the CIA had been using him as an involuntary experimental subject, bombarding him with telepathically transmitted messages, instructions and pain. Harlan Girard’s claims are extremely difficult to deal […]

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

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] appears on Wikipedia and is well worth looking at, so will not be repeated here. Suffice to say that for Bush, Zapata provided a useful cover for CIA activities. The CIA’s Bay of Pigs fiasco was even code-named Zapata. Through Zapata, Bush got the political propulsion he required.(5) Carlyle One of the most rewarding […]

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

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] Laboratories and began working with Janet Morris, the Research Director of the U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC), chaired by Dr. Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA. (3) I examine the background of Janet Morris and John Alexander in more detail below. Throughout 1990 the USGSC lobbied the main national laboratories, major defence […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] The account of the war in the Ukraine forbears to mention the widespread collaboration between the Ukrainian nationalists and the Nazis; Nicaragua – no mention of the CIA; Angola – no mention of the CIA; Mozambique – no RENAMO atrocities, nothing on its origins in Rhodesian Intelligence; and so on. The only value this […]

Princess Diana: the Hidden Evidence

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

How MI6 and the CIA were involved in the death of Princess Diana Jon King and John Beveridge New York: SPI Books, 2002, £18.95 In the five years since the Paris car crash that killed Princess Diana, Dodi Fayed, and Henri Paul, interest in Diana herself may have waned, (1) but the circumstances surrounding […]

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