Murder in Cairo

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[…] 2020. Gillman compiled a 1978 internal report for Harold Evans, a tireless and peerless editor who deployed six reporters for six months after the murder, sued the CIA for information in New York1 but had to admit in his 2009 memoir:2 We were plunged into many mysteries in my fourteen years as editor of […]

The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in Hirsch and Fletcher’s 1971 Who were they travelling with? (Nottingham: Spokesman), which is now on-line at and expanded a little in Weissman, Kelly and Hosenball’s ‘The CIA backs the Common Market’, originally in Time Out in 1975 and reproduced in Philip Agee and Louis Woolf (eds.) Dirty Work: the CIA in Western Europe, […]

The Crimes Of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination by Carl Boggs

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[…] nonetheless legitimate’! Weapons of mass deception Further examples of war crimes discussed in the book include the prepicking in the 1990s of Ahmed Chalabi to head the CIA invented Iraqi National Congress. Along with a mountain of other evidence that the Iraq war was planned years in advance, this amounts to ‘criminal intentions spanning […]

Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and even local ethnic movements.’ (pp. 92/3) Hancock doesn’t discuss how genuine the Americans’ supposed fear of the Soviet ‘threat’ was. Did those smart people in the CIA really believe the Soviets were behind all the anti-American struggles in the Latin American banana republics? I doubt it; but it was a handy pretext for […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Morgan was a five percenter. This can be neatly illustrated by the group of clients of ‘super lawyer’ Edward Bennett Williams as presented by Marshall. From the CIA there was sometime Agency director Richard Helms; from the Teamsters union came Dave Beck and Jimmy Hoffa; from the Mafia Sam Giancana and Frank Costello; and […]

Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Elizabeth Woodworth, 9/11 Unmasked: An international review panel investigation (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2018) ISBN-13:978-1-62371-974-6 43 John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, The Watchdogs Didn’t Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the crimes of the war on terror (Hot Books, 2018) ISBN 978-1-5107-2136-4 44 9 range of senior US intelligence and law enforcement officials whose […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the time of soldiers being drafted in as civilians but none of these stories have been stood up. Page 72 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 attachés, and the CIA; and parts of the Labour Party’s organisation, the party agent network and the Organisation Subcommittee.9 In 1964 Labour was in office for the first time since […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the phone book of one of the women, and it confirms and thickens Hougan’s original research of 30 years ago. The author’s thesis is this: the CIA were running a honey trap, using prostitutes in a room wired for film and sound. In their search for dirt on Democrats, the Nixon ‘plumbers’ looked […]

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