Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] intervention in the Indian sub-continent and the pivotal point for clandestine military assistance to the Afghan rebels – still the largest per-capita finan cial commitment in the CIA budget. In Zia, the US found an enthusiastic partner in the bid to arm and support the most reactionary Islamic factions in the mojahedin. Pakistan’s strategic […]

A Century of War: Anglo-American oil politics and the new world order

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () Take the following sentence of the author’s: ‘Under a top-secret CIA research project, code-named MK-Ultra, British and American scientists began carrying out experiments using psychedelic and other mind-altering drugs.’ That bit is true (though the British role […]

Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] to the former Czech intelligence officer Joseph Frolik that a group of British trade unions leaders were ‘agents’ of Soviet intelligence. Frolik was being run by the CIA. (p. 321) These incidents, at the end of the remarkable sequence of events in the three years preceding Hasting’s statement to the House of Comments which […]

Students and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] the UK and USA, of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), the International Student Conference and COSEC (Coordinating Secretariat). The final chapter and the conclusion discuss the CIA funding of various youth and student bodies in the fifties and sixties. These two chapters will be of particular interest to anyone who has not read […]

All the news that fits

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] us that on seven separate occasions in the build-up to the war on Iraq editor Alton refused to publish well-sourced stories from its US correspondent that the CIA knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Ed Vulliamy repeatedly filed his on-the-record account with supporting documentation from Mel Goodman, the former head […]

Obituaries: Donald Allen & Reuben Falber

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] Eye speculating that the World Wildlife Fund was some kind of cover for intelligence personnel. This thought cropped up once again with the obituary of the former CIA officer Donald Aspinall Allan (Washington Post, 5 August 2006 ). Allan’s career included spells at the New YorkTimes, Newsweek, the Reporter and the North American Newspaper […]

Elvis has left the building: Political Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] security’ priority. Just as the Cold War was a politico-military process, globalisation is set to become a politico-financial one. And just as intelligence agencies such as the CIA and MI6 became not merely political observers but also political players in the Cold War, so might we expect them to remain not simply observers of […]

Bits and Pieces

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] with a reputation for physically abusing suspects, espe cially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and […]

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 […]

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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