The JFK literature: some recent titles

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] Clinton done that could possibly be compared with, for example, the Savings and Loan rip-off, the biggest financial scandal in US history? NEWMAN, JOHN. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995. xviii + 627 pps. Illustrated, notes (incorporating bibliography), index. Newman, known for his magisterial study, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, […]

Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] of Space Aliens from the Pentagon. In a flyer for his excellent catalogue Flatland,(2) Jim Martin comments: ‘Whatta title. Lyne claims info on man-made saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy motors that power them. Plausible premise, but announcing how he saw Adolf and Eva Hitler in San Antone with LBJ in ’67 […]

The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] impact on the spook market of the rise of the Chinese, Korean and Indian economies is considerable, other countries can match what the US can offer. The CIA could consider selling off its name while its brand recognition, in an ever more crowded market, remains high. Watch out for CIA merchandise! US irritations with […]

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

In 1976 Mary Ferrell discovered a curious CIA document, a telegram that had been sent from the Agency office in London to headquarters in Langley on 23 November 1963, the day after JFK was assassinated. The telegram reads as follows (blacked-out(1) matter shown by brackets, with suppositions in italic): EXPRESSIONS OF SORROW AND SYMPATHY […]

Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] The British and American systems’ senior intelligence personnel used last-minute information which purported to show that Iraq was a threat. In the USA the Director of the CIA and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colin Powell, used the now notorious ‘uranium from Niger’ scam – based on crudely forged documents (6) – […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] weapons, Peter Dale Scott demolishing Posner’s Case Closed (it’s worth getting just for that); plus material on Area 51, Pat Robertson, and the mysterious shooting at the CIA. This would been a cracking good issue at any time; to do this first time out is tremendously impressive. As well as the articles there are […]

Jim Hougan’s Watergate theory tested in court

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] why didn’t McCord do as he was told and bug Larry O’Brien? To which I’d reply: as the former director of physical and technical security for the CIA, McCord knew that O’Brien had recently been Howard Hughes’s Washington liaison – and, in that capacity, O’Brien had helped negotiate arrangements between Hughes and the CIA. […]

Hugh Gaitskell

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] Research Department, Common Cause and the rest of the ‘anti-communism’ apparatus, we are told nothing. Though Brivati quotes from the US Senate 1976 Church Committee report on CIA activity and front organisations, there is similarly no attempt to describe, even less, assess, Gaitskell’s role in relation to American activities during the Cold War. We […]

Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] the Labour Party. (25) Haseler worked for the ‘left-face’ of the US National Strategy Information Centre (NSIC)one of the funders of Brian Crozier’s Forum World Features, a CIA front. He co-authored Eurocommunism with the NSIC’s Roy Godson, who ‘helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation […]

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 […]

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