Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] I say to people; and a handful of serious and/or desperate people have got on the train. Harlan arrived and told me this strange story about the CIA, microwaves and mind control; how he was the victim of a CIA experiment. At that time I knew nothing about microwaves but I had read the […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] (and doesn’t do so here), merely hinted at it. Stone doesn’t quote Henry Cabot Lodge: he quotes Lodge’s brother’s version of Henry’s opinion that the Mafia, the CIA and LBJ killed Kennedy (which covers just about all the bases.) The Goldwater story isn’t new. Robert Morrow posted this para below on John Simkins’ JFK […]
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]: […] 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 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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of 9/11 events […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] tells us that in Italy in 1948 the Communists lost the election. About that election, ‘There were (and are) cries of “foul”, because of covert activity by CIA men such as Michael Ledeen or Edward Luttwak, who knew the country well.’ If he isn’t claiming that Ledeen (born 1942) and Luttwak (born 1941) were […]