Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] like one. Paul Robeson’s son alleged – without evidence as far as I could see – that his father had been giving a psychedelic drug by the CIA. More significant, in my view, was the kicker to the story that, having displayed symptoms of depression, Robeson was given 54 electroshock ‘treatments’ in Britain. (Sunday […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] of the organisation’s appearance and the particular ‘pitch’ it is offering. If this was the 1950s or 60s we might assume it was an example of classic CIA funding of a putative left group. But these days, who knows? 2 Notice that he, like almost everyone else these days, writes of Nato and not […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] book and TV documentary that Frank Olsen, the American army scientist who was thrown out of a hotel window in 1953, after being given LSD by the CIA, had been working on biological weapons. A work colleague and friend of Olsen’s, Norman Cournoyer, told the German authors that the American Air Force had indeed […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] the revelation that the European Movement was only kept afloat by funds that Churchill solicited from the Americans: Sandys urgently requested £80,000 to keep it solvent. The CIA funds, channelled via Donovan and Dulles, prevented its collapse during the first two decisive meetings of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg in 1949 and 1950. […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] of the South African Information Department in Pretoria) proving that he had been framed. Martin Dollinchek, alias Martin Donaldson (a BOSS agent who was captured when the CIA, MI6 and BOSS mounted a joint attempt to invade the Seychelles in an attempt to bring Boss’s agent of influence James Mancham back to power, to […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] of its resources, both spiritual and material, into the battle with the Left. As is well known, the Vatican acted as a conduit for the transfer of CIA funds to the Christian Democrats. As for ‘the pope’s audacious ratline venture’, Phayer argues that it was once again his anti-Communism that lay behind the operation. […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] as it is ideologically committed to capitalism and against any form of so cialism and secularism. Their system of secrecy reminds one of the ways that the CIA operates: routinely denying that people are members, unless it can be proved otherwise. When coupled with their doctrine of ‘individual freedom’, this means that when O.D. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] and jihadis. Billions of dollars and high tech weaponry flow into Islamist hands; tons of heroin return from Afghanistan as the ‘cowboys’, headed by Casey at the CIA, start to spread an enormous net of American money and personnel across Pakistan and the Middle East, much of it going through the BCCI. This disastrous […]