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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 […]

Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] a minor criminal and anti-Castro activist. He presents a selection of the known and reliable evidence to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s […]

Vote-rigging USA

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

Hi-tech computer voting is now the order-of-the-day in America. In October 2002 the US Administration passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) which authorised $4 billion for states to use the Direct Recording Election system (DRE) equipment which would have to meet certain standards (set by the Act) by the year 2006. At which point, […]

Saddam Hussein on Trial

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] prime minister. Quasim himself was ousted in 1963. In 1968 another coup brought Saddam Hussein’s faction of the Ba’athist party into power. The leaders took advantage of CIA help, but Al-Ani argues that they remained independent of US influence. The new administration created, on the basis of nationalised oil revenues, a semi-industrialised authoritarian state […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] 11-page essay on Northern Ireland by a Protestant Marxist, which I think no-one else would publish, or the long Cummings piece on The Paris Review and the CIA, whose core was printed in Lobster 47 but which is so much better in this elaborated form. They are interesting, perhaps important pieces. But interesting would […]

MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] the general public uneasiness about the current aims of government due primarily to the harm done to the moral standing of the western democracies by Watergate and CIA activity the ultra-left (sic) have been quick to capitalise on the discontent and sensationalised reports against the security establishment and in particular the police, the intelligence […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] when Seal told his handlers that cocaine was being trans-shipped through Nicaragua with the permission of high-level government officials. In an effort to frame the Sandinistas, the CIA installed a hidden camera in Seal’s C-130 cargo plane (the same plane, incidentally, that later crashed in Nicaragua leading to the capture of Eugene Hasenfus in […]

Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] operations in the immediate post-war period; giant political slush funds were created under the control of……well, this isn’t clear. At one point we are talking about the CIA; and then we are told that Richard Nixon, a politician, gave control of the biggest of the funds to the Japanese Prime Minister. (We are talking […]

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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