Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
[…] end of them Olds’ reputation had been roundly trashed in a McCarthy-style personality assassination. Olds’ desire to see ‘social responsibility’ ahead of profit made him a ‘ communist’. His appointment was rejected, much to the delight of the oil and gas lobby, cementing Johnson’s position as their chief mouthpiece in the legislature. Following Olds’ […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘ communist threat’ in Lobster 24; some sections on the Gaitskellites and the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Smear!; and a little piece on the post WW1 […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)
[PDF file]: […] Department (IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti- Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] month later, on 14 September, the Warren Commission stated that Oswald and his unit sailed into the South China Sea during a major crisis between Taiwan and Communist China. On 30 September, his unit set up base at P’ing-tung in North Taiwan. The unit then returned to Atsugi on 5 October. Oswald next spent […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] United Nations action. The Koreans living in the North, separated by US fiat from the rest of their country, including families, were decreed en masse to be communist non-persons and white Americans had been urged to fanatical hatred of communists, especially as non-Americans, the extermination of which became a self-evident and holy cause. Fantasy […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[PDF file]: […] the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by many in the US as a Communist sympathiser – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of […]