Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Iraq and intelligence

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[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 […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ Maclean 8) Admiral Sir Ian Hogg Major Alexander Greenwood Mr Meyer, an American (probably Herb Meyer, CIA officer9) David Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] knew their involvement with the US state in these activities gave them a get-out-of-jail-free card. So they went through the motions, only to report back to their CIA handlers, ‘Gee, we failed again.’ Not only did the CIA fail to assassinate Castro, they failed to get reliable information on events and sentiment within Cuba; […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] have had links to the CIA.2 0 Radio London itself, of course, had been set up with advice from US commercial radio magnate Gordon McLendon, someone the CIA had turned to when operating similar outfits in central America and the Caribbean in the ‘50s. The combination of McLendon + LBJ + J Walter Thompson […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] (presumably Michael Hanley, some time Director-General of MI5) (Colonel) Maclean (probably ‘Billy’ Maclean7) Admiral Sir Ian Hogg Major Alexander Greenwood Mr Meyer, an American (probably Herb Meyer, CIA officer8) David Hart The threat Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned […]

A Difference of Opinion: My Political Journey by Jim Sillars

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] as a leader of the miners, was ‘too egotistical and reckless’. Harold Wilson was ‘an unprincipled, slippery customer who was not to be trusted’. He took ‘the CIA tour’ of the USA with Neil Kinnock in 1975 soon after SNP leader Billy Wolfe had been hosted by the State Department. ‘According to the US […]

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