Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] by the Reader’s Digest has been covered in more detail in his Deception (1989). And this account does nothing to clarify what was going on when a CIA officer, Jamieson, offered the Reader’s Digest access to the KGB defector, Nosenko. 1 The definitive account of the workings and failings of the Warren Commission is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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; […]
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 […]
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 […]