Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] a situation of virtual state bankruptcy. I read Beyond Hypocrisy just after rereading Christopher Lasch’s fine essay about the Congress for Cultural Freedom, written shortly after its CIA funding was exposed in 1967.(1) More than 20 years later, it still has much to commend it, including the following: ‘The modern state, among other things, […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: ‘…..When I arrived in Washington (July 1955), […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One son Roy, a close friend of CIA chief William Casey, continued in a similar line of work with British trade unionists, while also having a hand in the Iran-Contra affair. Other son Dean, […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] ‘the allies’ have no agents, cannot ‘sell’ their message and Iraq disintegrates. US Attitude to agents America describes its foreign agents as MICE. (Its subliminal subtext implies CIA officers are ‘MEN’.) MICE stands for money, ideology, compromise and ego, airbrushing the valour of unsung heroes and patriots, often civilians, many of them amateurs. It […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] killed a Greek publisher. ‘November 17’ is said to have left a note at the scene of the murder “arguing that the publisher had been helping the CIA to create a climate of uncertainty in Greece.” The World Anti-Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) has had a lot of attention recently. Less attention […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] 1971. It isn’t that difficult to follow the trail of Milner’s ‘class peace’/corporatism right through to the present day: Round Table – Council on Foreign Relations – CIA – right-wing Labour Party revisionists – Social Democratic Party. But demonstrating it …… The FBI and the American Legion Contact Program, 1940-66, Athan Theoharis in Political […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] too. Further down the line I can see boxed sets of CDs containing every shred of (released) paper relating to the assassination from the files of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA….And then we’ll be complaining about CD-ROMs taking up too much room. But what of the two CD-ROMs under review, the first I […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] a report claiming that the previous Pope had been poisoned. Pfaff comments that the Soviet analysis shows “an astonishing fear of American power, of the effectiveness of CIA conspiracies”. Astonishing, and, in Pfaff’s view, quite absurd of course. On Brzezinski’s role in all this I have seen nothing, and on the machinations behind the […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] was Meta (now Baroness) Ramsay, later, if not at the time, a member of MI6. Ramsay, a student friend of Foulkes, was secretary of FISC, an alleged CIA front operation. Foulkes went on to become Scottish organiser of the European Movement and director of the European League for Economic Co-operation, an organisation which likewise […]
