Old spooks’ tales

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in oil…’ Other Means, Summer 1997 PO Box 191710, San […]

Politics and Paranoia

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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 […]

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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] how in 1975 at UCLA in Berkeley, ‘These feminists were all cruising comfortably on a huge Ford Foundation grant…’ The Ford Foundation? Didn’t they work with the CIA? Yes, indeed. Bob Feldman at < www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html > has assembled a collection of material which shows how some of the US ‘alternative media’ has been funded […]

Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] is basically a study of the ‘Red Orchestra’, an area already covered in detail. The author shows that this was, indeed, a very big spy ring. (The CIA were still investigating its activities well into the 1970s, believing that portions of it had survived various Gestapo crack-downs and had gone on to become embedded […]

Liddle and Lobbygate: reflections on a Downing Street drama

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] NUS politics he became personal assistant to Ronald Gould, the National Union of Teachers general secretary who also presided over another Cold War organisation set up with CIA money, the World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP). A fellow student politics contemporary, Peter Robinson, also joined the staff of the NUT but, […]

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, […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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