Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the coast. In conversation, Mason recalled, Solomon talked about the pleasures of taking certain drugs and hinted, half-jokingly, that he was or had been connected to the CIA (in World War Two he had served in military intelligence). Mason also recalled that Solomon ‘became nervy’ when someone present casually mentioned that Mason was friendly […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British industrial relations reform John Kelly, New York/Abingdon: Routledge: 2010, £70 (h/b) Lawrence Black By the 1960s Allan Flanders was amongst the foremost industrial relations experts in Britain. A key figure in the ‘Oxford School’, he sat on the government Commission on Industrial Relations, provided key […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] I think it was supposed to be when he was a younger man, of a highly personal and secretive nature with one of his ministers, and the CIA were threatening to fish it out.’ (p. 252) Which rumour is about par for the course in all this. In fact we don’t need to speculate […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] the chapter on the story of the woman concerned with the startling information that according to her son, his late father said he had worked for the CIA and had been involved with mind control projects. Which brings us back to where we were circa 1970 with the discovery by various shrinks that Sirhan […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] 12). And, as we shall see, he returns to Orwell on a number of occasions. Now this hijacking of Orwell by the Right is not new. The CIA famously funded the 1954 Halas and Batchelor cartoon film of Animal Farm and the John Birch Society proudly had 1984 included as part of the phone […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Perhaps the WU(C-in-C) provided useful cover for the WUCC in that alphabet soup of government committees? 15 The American observers would have been from the newly formed CIA but were also, very likely, veterans of the wartime Office of Strategic Services. 16 By the time that the WUCC was set up in late 1949, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] agents using infrared and ultraviolet LIDAR. In 2001, a PowerPoint presentation was given to delegates from the US Air Force 2025 (the ‘owning the weather’ team), DARPA, CIA, FBI, et al., attending a NASA Langley Institute meeting. Relative to chemtrails, the presentation included as the ‘Major Influences 28 US Space Command, ‘Vision for 2020’, […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: The Establishment And how they get away with it Owen Jones London: Allen Lane, 2014, £16.99 (h/b) W hen Owen Jones appeared as the bright young Oxford ‘leftie’ columnist in The Independent to replace the disgraced Cambridge plagiarist Johann Hari, my hopes were not high. But they were sustained by a markedly more radical and […]