Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] said, mystification — to be overcome is the apparent contradiction between America’s proclaimed principles and the intensity of its covert operations practices. Philip Agee once called the CIA, ‘capitalism’s invisible army’. He recalled that one of his first tasks as a junior CIA officer had been to conduct background checks on Venezuelan applicants for […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] nearly £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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] in various capacities, including Assistant Musical Director and Conductor of the BBC Northern Ireland Symphony Orchestra (1933-38). 7 See for example . 8 A declassified 1967 internal CIA memo on the Garrison case said: ‘Clay Shaw was an innocuous DCS contact between 1948 and 1956’. (At ). Some of Garrison’s defenders think there is […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] search app ChatGPT. I asked it ‘Who was Chauncey Holt?’ And in about 5 seconds it produced this: Chauncey Marvin Holt was an American criminal and self-proclaimed CIA contract agent who claimed to have been involved in several highprofile events in U.S. history, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Holt made these […]