The Iron Triangle: inside the secret world of the Carlyle Group

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] the Carlyle Group has ‘more political connections than the White House switchboard.’ It’s luminaries include former President George Bush (Carlyle’s senior adviser on Asia), Frank Carlucci (former CIA deputy director and Defense Secretary in the Reagan era and now Carlyle emeritus Chairman), James Baker III (Bush’s Secretary of State and senior Carlyle counsellor) and […]

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 […]

Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover

The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to […]

The Men with the Guns

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] A third version appeared in 1980, entitled Beyond The Gemstone Files. It claimed to have being ‘written’ by one Peter Renzo, who claimed to be an ex- CIA agent. (A story and excerpts from this appeared in the Boston Globe April 19 1980). Renzo was, of course, a bullshitter, and, as the excerpts show, […]

‘Conspiracy Theories’ and Clandestine Politics

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] and Russia, to minimize the role played by revolutionary vanguard parties in the Russian and communist Chinese revolutions, or to deny that powerful intelligence services like the CIA and the KGB have fomented coups and intervened massively in the internal affairs of other sovereign states since the end of World War II. In short, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] emotions (and thus actions), produce sleep, transmit suggestions, interfere with both short-term and long-term memory…’ Next time you read about or hear about someone claiming that the CIA (or whoever) is controlling their mind or body, re-read this paragraph before dismissing them as a nutter. Gordon Brown is not gay – official One of […]

UFOs and disinformation

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] I read, from ABC News, said that at this meeting Sheehan told reporters that during the Carter administration he ‘found out about government-held UFO information that then CIA Director George Bush, father of the current president, would not release.’ Sheehan said he was then led into the National Archives where he was shown photographs […]

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] Sweden, Greece and Switzerland. Characteristically, this directive includes a special notice which authorized its distribution to the Allied Intelligence Services of Great Britain, including the United States CIA. Question Could you tell us some of the BIS actions aimed at the Soviet Union? K.P. I could illustrate your question in conjunction with the tourist […]

US General Accounting Office Reports

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] Cold War era programs (11 pp.) GAO/T-NSIAD-94-266, September 1994. During World War 2 and the Cold War, US Government agencies (including the DoD, Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA and Dept. of Energy) conducted or sponsored extensive radiological, chemical and biological research programmes, in which hundreds of thousands of people were used as (often unwitting) […]

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