Ultimate Sacrifice

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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 […]

Things Israeli

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that […]

Gordon Winter: Inside BOSS and After

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] that in all the eight major TV interviews I gave the commentator always ended up by suggesting that I might still be working for BOSS or the CIA or the KGB. When I handed my Inside BOSS manuscript, and a big bundle of secret BOSS documents to Penguin Books, I dealt with their Editor, […]

The New Public Diplomacy: Soft power in international relations

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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 […]

Defending the Warren Commission:the line from Langley

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of […]

The View from the Bridge

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 […]

Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984)

[…] job was to co-ordinate the various police and intelligence services (SDECE, DST, Surete, RG.) (15) It was rumoured that he was associated with Radio Free Europe (a CIA project) and the U.S. Air Force’s think-tank, Rand Corporation. Melnik had joined the Rassemblement des Gauches Republicaines whose secretary general, Jean-Louis David, was founder of the […]

Islamic Imperialism: a history

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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 […]

The View from the Bridge: Blair. IMF. Bilderberg, etc

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 […]

Denis Healey

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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 […]

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