Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] attempt to assassinate Patrice Lumumba in the Congo by poisoning his toothpaste, many attempts on Castro, kidnapping (and more recently ‘extraordinary rendition’), the illegal financing of anti- Communist journals abroad, including Britain’s moderate-left Encounter – the list goes on. The CIA has been widely suspected of further plots, against Australia’s Gough Whitlam and Britain’s […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] to Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), offered him a bribe. Sniffing the political wind in Scotland three years later, Sillars recalls how when he told ‘virulently anti- Communist’ Labour National agent Sara Barker that we could lose to the SNP ‘she was incredulous’. Even before he was elected MP for South Ayrshire in 1970 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] Talbott, The Russia Hand (New York: Random House, 2002) 31 Y. Brudny, ‘In Pursuit of the Russian Presidency: Why and How Yeltsin Won the 1996 Presidential Election’, Communist and PostCommunist Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 255-275, 1997. 32 Aleksei Sanaev, ‘Vybory V Rossii: Kak eto Delaetsia’, Os’-89, 2005, p. 8, quoted in ‘Russia: […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] know: very little is known about Meyer’s role in the CIA in this period.30 The few reports we have suggest that Meyer was an averagely zealous anti- communist (as were most of the Agency’s senior staff) and would have been opposed to JFK’s unstated policy of détente with the Soviet bloc.31 Meyer’s ex-wife was […]