Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military (Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and his […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] assassination researchers, Mellen does not take this seriously. In her case, this is presumably due to a career-long support for Jim Garrison whose inquiries focused on the CIA. Nonetheless Professor Mellen has written a very good book, thoroughly documented and full of interesting and new bits and pieces.1 1 If you haven’t read Robert […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] or not it was a Communist front! As for Spender’s involvement, he provides a convincing argument in favour of Spender knowing that Encounter was funded by the CIA. He had, after all, worked for the Political Warfare Executive during the war and was certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] only read fragments. O’Brien recounts tales of her sexual abuse at the hands of various American politi cians. The subtitle is The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave. In O’Brien’s view of the universe, the rich and powerful men of America need mind-controlled sex slaves to act out their fantasies. Alas, […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] In this book deHaven-Smith does two main things. He traces the current use of the expression ‘conspiracy theorist’ back to the notorious 1967 memo issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that […]