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 […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] for four to five weeks prior to the day of the anti-Gaddafi demonstration by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an organisation financed by the CIA. Unbelievably, this operation was wound up the day before the demonstration! Dr Thomas is convinced that the single bullet which killed the police officer was fired […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] there is one obvious problem. They note ‘Council on Foreign Relation member Clinton’s Whitehouse contains 300 or more Council on Foreign Relations members he appointed to the CIA, NSC, State Department, and other agencies.’ The roundtable people/person interpret the near universal membership of the CFR among US elite managers to mean that the CFR […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] The deed that proved fatal to his career, the so-called ‘smoking gun’, was a taped Oval Office conversation in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no fool and he delivered this speech after going over it all with the Director of the CIA, George Tenet; and he had Tenet stand right behind him – the symbolic co-author, literally covering his ass – as he delivered it. A former journalist, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] in European royalty. He also suggested that the SS should ‘act more skillfully’ on Jewish matters to avoid ‘causing a big stir’. Dulles, later head of the CIA, had been approached by the Vatican to intercede on behalf of the German resistance after the policy of ‘unconditional surrender’ was adopted. Hence perhaps the mixture […]