I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain its decisions, leave any trace of them, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] ever was, the central committee of global capitalism as is believed by some. 9/11 There was a very striking piece on Politico about the attempts by the CIA to warn the Bush administration about the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the months and weeks before 9/11.8 5 6 7 8 CIA personnel have […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] US intelligence community’s ‘unstated anti-Israel policy’.105 Countering these charges, the NSA, in its recently declassified but still heavily redacted account of the Yom Kippur War, blames the CIA. The NSA confirms that by September 1973 ‘more and more . . . analysts came to believe that hostilities were in the offing’. Prohibited from providing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] as a view of the assassination it is hilarious. Hunter has JFK killed by a sniper in the Dal-Tex building on Dealey Plaza, working for a senior CIA officer who believed that Kennedy was going to embroil America deeper and deeper in the quagmire of Vietnam! In an afterword Hunter tells us that he […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] If you copy America, you get America The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. How many genuine vaccination drives […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] specific exemptions, but as Mr Jones is keen to observe: ‘Exemption three allows Congress to pass a new exemption at any time -– this is how the CIA Operational Files exemption was created. To date there are over 300 of these on the books… including information about watermelon growing techniques! That these statutory exemptions […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] he himself established to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] was to spread across much of the globe. Informal empire in Chile That much is familiar, along with the role played by the Nixon administration and the CIA in destabilising Allende’s government and covertly backing opposition to it in Chilean business and military circles.2 There are, however, two aspects of the Chilean affair which […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] yellowing hard copy of a two page spread in the Mail on Sunday in 2005 by Mark Almond: ‘If the Cold War is over why did the CIA buy the Ukraine election?’42 Almond stated: ‘The Americans alone gave pro-Yuschenko groups at least £50 million’. Nor does Skidelsky mention the evidence showing that the massacre […]

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