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 […]

United States foreign policy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] political leaders. Crude interference in dozens of foreign democratic elections. Gross manipulation of labour movements. Shameless manufacture of ‘news’, the disinformation effect of which is multiplied when CIA assets in other countries pick up the same stories. Providing handbooks, materials and encouragement for the practice of torture. Chemical or biological warfare or the testing […]

Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] The only real multiracial political grouping in Fiji was/is the Labour Party. In his Rogue State (p. 153) William Blum gives a brief account of an apparent CIA operation concerning Fiji in 1987. (1) In April of that year, within a month of his winning a democratic election, Prime Minister Bavrada of the Labour […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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