Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] Iraq; Westminster’s recently established All Party Rendition Group. The latter has agreed with human rights groups to use American laws ‘to get Washington to reveal how many CIA flights carrying detainees landed in Britain. They are also planning to table an amendment to the civil aviation bill going through parliament, or the police bill […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] this? John Coleman, he of the ‘Committee of 300’ fantasies, and writers from La Rouche’s EIR. Even worse, we get 30 pages on Project Monarch, the alleged CIA sex-slave mind control programme, and first-hand accounts from some of Monarch’s alleged subjects. This is all total twaddle. There is no evidence of Monarch’s existence and […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying the smouldering ruins of Nettlefold Studios, supposedly torched by the CIA in an attempt to demonstrate to the FBI that it could carry out acts of sabotage with the best of them, and also to warn Losey […]
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
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] provide is, firstly, a couple of chapters containing the most detailed and condensed information on the post-war dealings of the ultra right outside the files of the CIA, KGB, MI5/6 etc. At one point there is so much talk about the ‘Third Way’ and European unity that you could think you were reading a […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] was actually the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (p. 28); and its chair, Lane Kirkland, was certainly pro-NATO, but where is the evidence he was a ‘former CIA agent’? The Economic League did not come after Moral Re-armament (p. 28). Common Cause did not come after IRIS (p. 29). Other unsourced assertions include the […]