A short history of Lobster

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[…] magazine through the 1990s began when the late Harlan Girard came to see me. He told me a strange tale about being talked to constantly by the CIA who, he said, were doing so by using microwaves. I knew nothing about microwaves (had done no science since leaving school) but had read enough about […]

St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] he laundered for his friends and allies, including the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars for the Christian Democrats (some of which was provided by the CIA), and similar sums for the Mafia – in the main, profits from the heroin trade. As expected, the Vatican, the SID (Italian secret police), generals, judges […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 11 Sept. sourcebook Volume 1 Edited by Jeffery Richelson and Michael L. Evans, it includes documents relating to terrorism and Usama Bin Laden; assessments of terrorist threat; CIA profile of UBL; Congressional Research Service Reports; GAO reports, including 20 Sept. 2001 report on combatting terrorism; Presidential Directives and Executive Orders. Network Against the Terrorism […]

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Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Stewart Steven’s book, Operation Splinter Factor (London 1974, 76 and 78). Steven’s book is also about Noel Field but in his version, Allen Dulles of the fledgling CIA used Field, his contacts with the Soviet bloc, and a Polish intelligence defector-in-place named Swiatlo, to create the paranoia. Swiatlo discovered ‘plots’ everywhere, their reality was […]

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Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] to the British state. ‘The instigators of the attack were not Private Eye satirists but professional rivals…..experts from the Sovietology world, Kremlinologists on the fringes of the CIA or MI6, other writers and journalists who specialized in Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of […]

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Defrauding America: a pattern of related scandals

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] scandals of the Reagan/Bush years: October Surprise, Inslaw, BCCI, the arming of Iran and Iraq. And so Stich begins to learn about Mossad operations; factions within the CIA; assassination squads; drug dealing on a massive scale; corrupt politicians, judges etc. etc. He lists dozens of alleged CIA operations, personnel and front companies. This third […]

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Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] that Sparrow later had a book defending Warren published by a US company called Chilmark Press, an imprint which thus far has resisted investigation. Mr Sparrow has CIA written all over him and is probably worth a serious study by somebody. This is ring-bound, typeset, with a clear protective plastic cover, and is published […]

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Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] programmes traditionally have been implemented at gun-point, imposed by the US-dominated IMF on developing countries with the ever-present threat of political action – from economic sanctions, through CIA subversion up to full-blown coup – in the background. They have to be imposed by force because they are simply schemes whereby the imperialist powers (until […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] narcotics, environment, cybersecurity GAO and Congressional reports, eg Information Security: Computer Attacks at DoD Pose Increasing Risks (GAO/AIMD-96-84)). Web Resources: huge resource of weblinks, relating to the CIA, NSA and other agencies (www.fas.org/irp/guide/index.html) Weblinks include to: Open Source Solutions (www.oss.net), a large resource on intelligence, including newsletter OSS Notices. Intelligence Online (www.indigo-net.com/intel.html). The electronic […]

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Remote Viewers, and, Psychic Warrior

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] book with some caution. A number of people, including Armen Victorian, are intensely suspicious of Schnabel’s activities in the UFO/paranormal fields: some suspect him of being a CIA asset. On this I am an agnostic. But whatever Schnabel’s role, he has written a very good book. (An opinion Victorian shares, incidentally.) If this book […]

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