George Orwell and the IRD

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] A Life (London: Penguin 1992), pp. 444-449. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, pp. 99, 118. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 70-72. Lashmar and Oliver, op cit, p. 98. For the film Animal Farm and its CIA connection see Nick Cohen, ‘Cold War comfort for Orwell’, Observer 26 April 1998. Orwell’s Politics op cit, pp. 146-147.

Contents

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] In all accounts so far – ie the Wright-derived accounts – there is a single, central villain – MI5. We are getting a British version of the ‘CIA as rogue elephant’ theory of the late 1970s. And that isn’t even likely to be the whole story. While getting control of MI5 is obviously the […]

Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a […]

Historical Notes: Anglo-American Conflict? UK becomes a US intelligence target

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] Monthly Review, which he has co-edited since its foundation, Sweezy spoke a little about his wartime work for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA). Sweezy revealed that he worked from 1942-45 in London, then Paris, then Germany, on ‘research and analysis’, evaluating intelligence and British policy. He said – and […]

Curious Liaisons

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Alien Liaison Timothy Good Century, London, 1991 Please note: all the telephone conversations referred to by the author in this essay have been tape-recorded. Published in May 1991, the thesis in Good’s book is (a) that alien space craft have landed and/or crashed on earth; and (b) that the U.S. government is concealing this fact […]

Tail piece

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] is a schizophrenic and her tales are delusions. Dr. Sue Arrigo denies this, calls it a smear and claims to have been drugged and tortured by the CIA. This one, as the old cliché has it, is going to run and run. Notes You can read more about her involvement in the debate at […]

America, drugs, corruption and the British national interest

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] eating American shit and swearing that it’s ice-cream. Notes The piece of electronic circuitry which was the core of the physical evidence was apparently planted by the CIA. See Lobster 50 p.31. Evidence presented by the prosecution as being from the suitcase containing the bomb was apparently from the lab tests of an identical […]

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] evidence – the key piece dating back to 1998 – which show that the whodunit aspect of the case has been solved: LBJ had Kennedy killed to save his political career and keep himself out of jail. It wasn’t the mob, or the CIA, or the anti-Castro Cubans; it was LBJ, a bent Texas politician.

The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] noble friend Lord Callaghan with regard to the Argentine were not passed on until it was far too late….’ (col 1052) ‘It was a member of the CIA, a man called Angleton, who did great harm in this country under the “dirty tricks” campaign.’ (col 1053) Rinka RIP Curious piece in the Daily Telegraph, […]

ELF, microwaves, etc. update

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] titled ‘FOIA requests by “Dr Victorian” ‘. In it Alexander complains about Victorian’s success in getting information and notes on p. 2, ‘I have learned that the CIA has asked both British Intelligence and the police to assist in resolving problems’ with Victorian. This may or may not have anything to do with the […]

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