Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] the argument: if there are no discrepancies, it simply shows that the lie has been imposed effectively.) There is some good stuff in here: Preston Peet on CIA drug-running, Barry Chamish on the murder of Yitzhak Rabin and Cletus Nelson on the Oklahoma City bomb are all well worth reading, as are pieces by […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] material from them on the attempts being made by the United States to overturn New Zealand’s nuclear-free policy. I had read enough about the role of the CIA to recognise some of the names of the people and organisations who were turning up in NZ and the general strategy being employed. It is difficult […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] the ‘it’s all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] long and largely sympathetic feature. (Donald MacIntyre got very worked up about accusations that Tony Crosland could stoop to dirty politics and may well have been a CIA ‘agent of influence’.) In response to the Ian McIntyre review I wrote a letter which included this. ‘I would have taken Mr McIntyre’s analysis more seriously […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Rice, the legal counsel in charge of the 9/11 civil suit, through a private sector intermediary.(6) This was not an official request for information by the FBI, CIA or US Treasury, but was to benefit a private prosecution on foreign soil with no direct Spanish content.(7) The Times meanwhile reported that Spanish ships were […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week…..’ Defence against which missiles? There is one section of the John Diamond book on the CIA, reviewed below, which deserves picking out. Diamond points out that the missile defence system which the US is deploying, apparently against ‘rogue states’, is not to […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] incident) and they all told me that the Israeli attack was deliberate, not an accident: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer CIA Director Richard Helms NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella. I am no authority on conspiracy theories, but there seem to be three possibilities here. A) Rusk, Moorer, […]
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), […]
