From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] Company, 2000, £18.99 (hb) Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism John Cooley London, Pluto Press, London, 2000, £12.99 (pb) It has recently been revealed that the CIA inadvertently helped to create Soviet chemical and biological weapons by convincing the Soviets that they – the Americans – had such capabilities when they didn’t.(1) The […]

Web update

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] articles from the CWIHP bulletin. Covers numerous topics related to the Cold War. Categories include arms race, Cold War origins, intelligence, Krushchev era, Stalin Era. Declassification of CIA critique on Bay of Pigs http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/news/19980222.htm Withheld for 36 years, this 150pp report, officially known as ‘The Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation’, written by […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] images of MKUltra documents were provided to Intellnet by an anonymous donor. Archive of document images is at www.intellnet.org/mkultra Also on MKUltra and related fields: Report by CIA Inspector General on MKUltra: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0003.htm CIA IG’s memo on CB research at Fort Detrick: www.cryptome.org/mkultra-0004.htm Influencing human behaviour: www.cryptome.org/ mkultra-0001.htm Covert research facility for biological and […]

Hidden Agendas

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] political turn they generally did not last long. Offi cial records from 1953 show that in British Guiana, the elected socialist government was overthrown by British and CIA terrorism in order to secure the flow of cheap sugar and bauxite. That was a busy year. The elected nationalist government in Iran met the same […]

Historical Notes (De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess; The 1949 sterling crisis)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] to the Urals – were not a million miles removed from what had been discussed at a more formal level in 1939. The 1949 sterling crisis: a CIA connection? The 1949 sterling devaluation, of 20 per cent, was the first of the postwar era. For many years the sterling crisis was put down to […]

The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] tag on the murder of me and my family and my friends – then supposed to be a Yablonski-type wipe out – and since changed to a CIA type slow-torture die on the vine type of thing. They know how to hurt all right. I watch my mother and father rot daily – in […]

Clippings Jan./Feb. 1984

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] January 1984 British Defoliation UK used dioxide based defoliants in war in Malaya 1951-53. New Scientist 19th January 1984 CIA’S MK Ultra Programme 9 Canadians, victims of CIA brain washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of […]

Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] Middle East), Musumeci formed a ‘parallel SISMI’, or ‘Super S’, which, according to some reports (Parapolitics/Intelligence XII 1984-’85) included Pazienza, member of SISMI and liaison with the CIA and the French SDECE Lt. Col Guiseppi Belmont, and Michael Ledeen, American journalist involved in propounding the ‘Bulgarian connection’ and former SISMI liaison agent with the […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984)

[…] Gary Patrick Hemming, and headed by Cuban exile Anselmo Alliergro IV, who dealt with Latin American sales. In 1974 Werbell was involved in a “conspiracy among the CIA, Robert Vesco (international fugitive and Nixon campaign contributor) and various corporations to finance clandestine guerilla activities in South America. Vesco wanted to purchase Werbell’s stock of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] operation in the USA at the time of 9/11, some of whose members were seen celebrating as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. Matthiessen and the CIA ‘The Burgeoning Rebirth of a Bygone Literary Star’ by Celia McGee in The New York Times of 3 January 2007, is about a recent documentary film […]

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