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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Milan. Indeed, it was in Milan that they centred their non-US operations. Politically unstable and financially corrupt, Italy was a peculiar choice. It was, however, central to CIA operations in Europe. London was still a rival financial centre and Paris only a part-time ally of the US after DeGaulle. The later history of Andersen […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] political fixers and finan cial manipulators’. More to the point, he also traces the history of the complicated entanglement of the US government, or more specifically the CIA, with the Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed virtually non-stop from when Japan regained its independence in 1952 until the present day. The CIA was still […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] he could do because 85% of the land in Nevada was owned or controlled by the federal authorities. The rest was owned mostly by the Mob. The CIA found Vegas as useful for laundering money as the Mob. When Hank Greenspan, the local semi-liberal and ‘crusading’ newspaper editor died – he was as close […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]