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 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Whose Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] from the American line since then. So great is the British state’s subservience to the 2 3 This is not a new problem. Sam Adams was a CIA analyst who saw that the Agency and the US military were consistently underreporting the strength of the opposition in Vietnam and blew the whistle on it, […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] that the man charged by Reagan in 1985 with drawing up concrete plans against Libya – code-named ‘Flower/Rose’ – was Robert Gates. He went on to become CIA director under George Bush Sr and stayed on as Defence Secretary when Barack Obama succeeded George Bush Jnr. With Libya having this powerful opponent in the […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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 […]