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

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[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 […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Whitlam as PM in 1975. For Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts ( CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with Ehrlichman and it is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] through NATO’s Atlantic Committee; or through the Trade Union Committee for Transatlantic and European Unity, created by US Labour attaché Joe Godson in the 1970s. If the CIA was in the British labour movement, it was in this committee. The Americans knew that NuLab were ‘on side’. The City was relaxed about NuLab: John […]

The Darkest Sides of Politics I & II by Jeffrey M Bale

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the apartheid South African state’s Project Coast, its exploration and use of chemical and biological weapons; and an account of the Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’), the Korean CIA and the World Anti-Communist League – all fine pieces of detailed parapolitical work. And then 9/11 happens and Bale sets out to explain On-line at or […]

Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA with ‘Defense’ tagged on) initiated a classified project entitled Some Upper Atmosphere Aspects of Chemical Geophysical Warfare. A year later, the CIA began a cloud seeding operation designed to rain off Buddhist protests in Saigon. It was latter revealed to be a common practice by the US in […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, The Independent and The Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen […]

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 […]

Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice by John A Nagl

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] than anything Nagl is prepared to acknowledge. Today, the US is trying to protect its imperial interests with proxy armies that it trains, equips and supports with CIA and special forces operations, aerial bombardment and drone attack. This is the age of the Dirty Wars, the age of a global Phoenix Programme. John Newsinger […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] century of research. He continues: ‘…….Over the years, pretty much everyone Jack Kennedy offended, and everyone Lee Harvey Oswald met, has been accused of involvement: the FBI; CIA; ONI; the KGB; Cuban intelligence; anti-Castro Cubans; the mafia; White Russians; the KKK and NSRP.’ Who is missing from the list? Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, […]

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