The Road to 9/11

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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 […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] deeply improbable. In the attempt to nail the IPS, Crozier runs a load of bullshit at the reader. He recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of […]

Vindication is a dish still edible when cold

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 […]

Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War

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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. […]

French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] DGSE had also come in for criticism for low productivity in intelligence-gathering. Its information on the Soviet Union or China is scanty and basic in comparison with CIA or MI6 material, and a report indicating a Libyan withdrawal from Chad in 1984 proved embarrassing when it became apparent the following year that the Libyans […]

What is Opus Dei?

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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. […]

Neck Deep

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no fool and he delivered this speech after going over it all with the Director of the CIA, George Tenet; and he had Tenet stand right behind him – the symbolic co-author, literally covering his ass – as he delivered it. A former journalist, […]

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 Great Betrayal

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

Books The Great Betrayal Nicholas Bethel (London 1984) This is either a ‘snow job’, designed to discourage further research in this area (British intelligence attempts to destabilise Soviet and communist influenced regimes), or is just a poor effort on Bethel’s part. One can’t deny that it is useful – after all, it is the first […]

War and peace plots

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] in European royalty. He also suggested that the SS should ‘act more skillfully’ on Jewish matters to avoid ‘causing a big stir’. Dulles, later head of the CIA, had been approached by the Vatican to intercede on behalf of the German resistance after the policy of ‘unconditional surrender’ was adopted. Hence perhaps the mixture […]

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