The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the Central Intelligence Agency, whose successor William H Webster finally returned it four years later. However, if this is the case, the question of why the CIA might have been interested in secret documents on the death of a member of the Royal Family remains unanswered. Afterword Briefly mentioned in contemporary news coverage […]

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[…] head by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA 4 memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate […]

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[…] by academia and journalists whose careers would be in jeopardy if they began 4 inquiring in the wrong areas. Central to all this was the notorious 1967 CIA memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] information about the status of the world economy from anyone This was the real source of conflict between United Fruit and the Arbenz government that led the CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan president in 1954. It was also the reason why Fidel Castro nationalised assets of major US corporations: they had refused compensation based […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] RT=Richard Tice, at the time, co-founder with Banks of Leave.EU / RE=Richard Edwards, a friend of Banks from Bristol) goes thus: March 7 Wikileaks release ‘Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools #1’.12 March 9 Farage visits Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy. March 10
 The Guardian publishes a piece by Marina Hyde titled ‘With Farage, Assange […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

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[PDF file]: […] chapter on ‘The Yellow Star Movement’. 34 9 “It is also his job to act as liaison man with any Right extremist group that they (i.e. the CIA) wish to contact or make use of in this country. To facilitate this he has recruited one Peter Crozier, a close associate of Colin Jordan, to […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by his bosses to gather information on drugs and narcotics and asses their potential as weapons. This assignment was part of Operation Artichoke2 set up by the CIA in 1951. Another of Beecher’s objectives was to identify scientists who could be recruited for secret work back in the US. Schmidt then goes on to […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the very highest levels of the so cial and political order. The article concludes by suggesting statutory and constitutional reforms to improve SCAD prevention and detection.’ The CIA and opium again Professor Alfred McCoy, who first drew attention to the CIA’s role in the shipping of opium during the Vietnam war, has returned to […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Aldrich and Cormac reveal, GCHQ provided the Americans with ‘volumes of signals intelligence’ to help their war effort and the Americans were allowed to operate their ‘largest CIA station in the region’ out of Hong Kong. MI6 agents in the British Embassy in Hanoi provided intelligence reports on the effect of US bombing that […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] was economic nationalism. So economic nationalism was deemed to be ‘communism’ and thus worthy of attack. Decolonisation in the 1950s and 60s wasn’t about communism (though the CIA and IRD could always be relied upon to fabricate a communist link if one was need): it was about nationalism. It is curious how this has […]

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