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 […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] sterling cheques or US dollars only, please. The Secret Team David Guyatt points out that the 1997 third edition of Fletcher Prouty’s classic 1973 book about the CIA, The Secret Team, is now available in e-format at http://www.ratical.com It comes complete with index, appendices, prefaces etc. It is downloadable in both HTML and Text […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 SUCCESS The CIA in Guatemala, 1954 James Lusher On 18 June 1954, following the positive outcome in Iran a year previously, backed by the President, Congress and the State Department, the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by […]

On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA David Black Is History a fiction? In his best-seller of 1991, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, the late John Bossy claimed that Bruno spied for Queen Elizabeth’s enforcer, Sir Francis Walsingham, at the French embassy in London. This was […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: Finks How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers Joel Whitney London and New York: O/R Books, 2016 1 paperback, 328 pages, bibliography, notes, index W hitney had the bright idea of exploring some of the activities of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in the 1950s and 60s by showing how the […]

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