Consultants Challen

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[…] the fine. This is where the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue

[…] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: ‘They….cannot imagine the rest of the world does not want […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] actions, he said, were also on behalf of the Z Society, a college group at the University of Virginia that Pyongyang alleges is a front for the CIA.’ 3 There appear to be at least sixteen fraternities/sororities at the University of Virginia, and some of them do have odd histories.4 It should be noted […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[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 […]

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. The Soviets would be blamed, the populace would rise up, […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] not clear how Burns was able to make such a seemingly-superhuman observation.50 The nuclear sabotage scare-story had been created by the SBU in August 2015, perhaps with CIA connivance, via documents leaked simultaneously to friendly media outlets in the US and the UK – respectively, Newsweek 51 and 48 LazerPig 18 June 2023. See […]

The President’s Mortician by Tim Fleming

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] characters and events with no idea of which is which. For instance: Liggett’s youthful participation in David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol outfit and his recruitment by the CIA therefrom. This is plainly of key importance to understanding Liggett’s life but I have no idea whether it’s real or pretend. Mr Fleming’s characters are all […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in attempts to sink a boatload of buses in the Thames in 1964. It’s an eclectic brew which reflects its editor’s passions and interests, so […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: Europe-Asia-Africa a determining factor? If so, how should the rest […]

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