Brothers

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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 […]

The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

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 […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was […]

The attack on the USS Liberty

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, […]

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2 Steve Dorril See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) CABLE, ERIC GRANT CMG (1938) B 25.2.1887 […]

Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] 10 November 2005 (almost ten years to the day since Diana’s Panorama interview with Martin Bashir) () On that day This Morning (ITV1) had crime novelist Patri cia Cornwell revealing the results of her own inquiry into Diana’s death;() while in the evening the final episode of series four of Spooks (BBC1) included a […]

Outlawing the Naming of Agents

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] victim of an assassination attempt as a result of his or her name having been published. Proponents of the bill cite the cases of Welch and Kinsman, CIA officers who were attacked allegedly as a result of their identities being printed in American magazines; the evidence to support this allegation is, in our view, […]

The rise of warfare capitalism

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] overriding what their own experts have to tell them. We saw this with Bush and Blair either ignoring or ‘sexing-up’ the evidence on WMD provided by the CIA and MI6. This process can only be fueled by defective intelligence derived from the privatised torture of hapless goat-herders and taxi-drivers who have been flown around […]

If Truth be Told

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Germans and Soviets destroy each other) the (deliberate?) failure of the assault on Dieppe, civilian bombing by the RAF and so forth. After WW2 we get the CIA in Europe, IRD, and the Korean war (US biological warfare). From the 1950s we skip to the 1980s and Reagan-era disinformation about the Soviets (shooting the […]

Still hazy after all these years

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] done, as have other Mafia figures. This ‘confession’ is merely a factor in one of the puzzles: how many assassination plots were there? Before he died former CIA officer and Watergate ‘plumber’, E. Howard Hunt, seemed to be talking of there being several plots;(7) and there are fragments of apparent advance information – for […]

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