The European Union: a critical guide

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] The previous British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the ‘Yes’ campaign, as did much of the political establishment, the CIA, the BBC and the Information Research Department. This time the forces are less uneven and McGiffen’s material could help lay the basis for a more serious […]

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 […]

Curious Liaisons

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

Alien Liaison Timothy Good Century, London, 1991 Please note: all the telephone conversations referred to by the author in this essay have been tape-recorded. Published in May 1991, the thesis in Good’s book is (a) that alien space craft have landed and/or crashed on earth; and (b) that the U.S. government is concealing this fact […]

The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] noble friend Lord Callaghan with regard to the Argentine were not passed on until it was far too late….’ (col 1052) ‘It was a member of the CIA, a man called Angleton, who did great harm in this country under the “dirty tricks” campaign.’ (col 1053) Rinka RIP Curious piece in the Daily Telegraph, […]

The attack on the USS Liberty

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] incident) and they all told me that the Israeli attack was deliberate, not an accident: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer CIA Director Richard Helms NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella. I am no authority on conspiracy theories, but there seem to be three possibilities here. A) Rusk, Moorer, […]

RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] pieces on the autopsy evidence and subsequent alteration thereof; long diatribes by Harrison E. Livingstone; and, recently, a piece based on AARB releases, which suggests that the CIA was running a variety of activities out of the Texas School Book Depository, including an arms-running ring (‘The Glaze Letters’ by William Weston, TFD May 1999). […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] the first of the euphemistic cover names for U.S. covert action agencies in the post-war era, was formed in 1948, staffed and run by the newly created CIA, but nominally under the control of the State Department. In effect the CIA’s covert arm, by 1952 the OPC had forty-seven stations, 30 Cited in Carew […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting up a third organisation, the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Several members of the Information Research Department then […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] to steal U-2 secrets. As we shall see later, Stout thought the idea that that Oswald had any ability to steal U-2 secrets was totally absurd. The CIA thought similarly. In a 14 April 1964 letter to J. Edgar Hoover, then CIA Deputy Director of Plans, Richard Helms, stated that it was virtually impossible […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] English, from London)3 The groups round Encounter and the Forum Information Service, a low-level feature service, formed the centre of CCF activities in Britain. In 1965 the CIA decided to shift Forum to a new identity as a supposedly straightforward commercial firm, to be called Forum World Features. (FWF) FWF was incorporated in Delaware […]

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