The View from the Bridge

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[…] their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side of American […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nonetheless legitimate’! Weapons of mass deception Further examples of war crimes discussed in the book include the pre-picking 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 […]

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[…] Macroeconomic Adventurism, 1979–1981, and its Political Consequences’ in British Politics, 2007, 2, (3–19) . 7 3 
 even though we can’t see his face; which means the CIA was involved at some level. However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version […]

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[…] . 7 3 
 Four people identifying him means we have to accept that Lansdale was there, even though we can’t see his face; which means the CIA was involved at some level. However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The MOSSAD Spy by Olivia Frank

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lid on the Iraq arms dealing story. Researching this on the Internet, Olivia came across a heavily redacted report on Project Babylon: the Iraqi Supergun, on the CIA website. Since the content was largely about the Middle East, she suspected that Mossad might have a copy of the original, and she contacted them. They […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of leaks of offi cial information, anonymous briefings to journalists, and public protest by retired diplomats and intelligence personnel. In the United States, the reluctance of the CIA to produce the required ‘intelligence’ led the neo-conservatives who were leading the push to attack Iraq to create the Office of Special Plans (OSP), a little […]

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