Shorts (KAL 007 & JFK)

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] works. I’ll tell you the real story of how Jack Kennedy got killed someday. It was supposed to be a miss! What a set of accidents! The CIA didn’t know anus from appetite that day. ” (p123) A Lobster reader writes that he repeatedly finds that photographs taken of military installations come back from […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] Civil Service regulations.) Production Services, having comprehensive printing facilities, provided forgeries of various sorts – driving licenses (Holroyd’s Eire driving license in a false name, for example), CIA identity cards, posters, press ID cards, bank statements and so on. Information Policy (Inf Pol) went into the psyops arena with smear campaigns against political figures […]

Deception

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] (and the UK) in their absurd attempts to fight the ‘war on terror’, and the cause of much harassment of individuals, such as Edmonds, Amin, and the CIA and Pentagon intelligence officer Richard Barlow, (9)who, by merely doing their assigned jobs, learned things which the American and British states wish they hadn’t and are […]

Morningside Mata Haris: How MI6 deceived Scotland’s great and good

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] thousands of pro-Nazi soldiers and war criminals from Eastern Europe, groups which eventually were formed into the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, funded by MI6 and then the CIA. Why did the British state import these people? First, they were regarded as potential sources of information and agents in the anti-Soviet struggle which had been […]

Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] ‘the StB (Czech) residency in London ran three Labour MPs.’ They named one of the three, Will Owen MP, citing as sources Frolik’s memoir, ghost-written while under CIA control, and Chapman Pincher! (This bit must be down to Andrew.) They did not mention that Owen was conning the Czechs, getting paid a lot of […]

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] as an agent – hardly positions of influence to rival that of his previous employment as the head of SIS’s anti-Soviet desk and liaison officer with the CIA in Washington. It can be argued, however, that the political and social damage inflicted on the then British ruling elite by the various defections, and the […]

Israel and the Clash of Civilisations

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] is that it was a disastrous fuck-up in which the yahoos and Cowboys in the Pentagon overrode the advice (and planning) of those sensible Yankees in the CIA and the State Department.(5) For the junior British half of the story it was a disastrous fuck-up in which either the Foreign Office failed to warn […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] programmed in some fashion, he shot Fletcher from an office of the Hughes Tool Company close to the Libyan Embassy. (Hughes Tool has been a cover for CIA.) The death of Penkofsky: a modern myth continues In Lobster 27 I commented on the developing myth surrounding the death of Oleg Penkofsky, generally assumed to […]

MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

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 […]

Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American empire

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] which Hitchens seems to have flunked), letters to editors, and the texts of some of his e-mail Anti-Empire Reports.() If you know his previous work on the CIA and American imperialism ()you know what to expect. If you don’t know Blum, you should; and this is as good – and as entertaining – a […]

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