Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] which is dedicated to the memory of the late, great, Bill Hicks?) Steamshovel 11 contains part 3 of G. J. Krupey’s piece on JFK, LSD and the CIA; an interview with Alan Cantwell, one of the AIDS heretics of America and author of Queer Blood; a piece about Clinton, Mena and the whole Arkansas […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, ‘Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] own inventions facilitating the use of radio waves, to work for the US Atomic Energy Authority, and, in 1970, to visit Israel, at the request of the CIA, to assess the abilities of Uri Geller. During this time Puharich worked closely with Sir John Whitmore.(16) They visited Warsaw in 1974 where they set up […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
Barry and the boys The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History Daniel Hopsicker Venice (Florida): The Madcow Press, 2006, $19.95, p/b Barry is Barry Seal and ‘the boys’ are the CIA. There is a decent Wiki entry for Seal which conveys the outlines of his extraordinary life as a pilot, large-scale drug smuggler […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield […]