Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] anti-Castro Cuban end; and the anti-Castro Cubans were awash in American money and case officers. The politi cians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] is a recent term for a range of activities hitherto called propaganda, public relations, advertising and psy-ops. So while this book could have been been about the CIA, IRD, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its little UK cousin, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and all those American interventions in the Soviet bloc […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] be thought to be encouraging the crazier end of the UFO conspiracy world but among the mountains of documents in Armen Victorian’s possession is a purported 1962 CIA document reporting the results of phone-taps of conversations between the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and a friend of hers, one Howard Rothberg. Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
Efraim Karsh Yale University Press, 2006; 276 pp. For anyone who believes that ‘imperialism’ is an exclusively Western phenomenon, that Islam has only been the victim of it, and that 9/11 was simply a reaction to that (‘blowback’), this book will come as a bit of a shock. Karsh argues that aggressive imperialism was […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] mud in the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] America’ which paid for the American tendency in Labour to spend the 1950s visiting America, getting published and building careers. It was the State Department and the CIA. This is completely missing from Pearce’s account. And it has been omitted. Even if Pearce is unaware of the work of the Richard Fletcher (1) and […]