Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] friend of the Bush family ever since working with George HW Bush during the Reagan administration, when Bandar ended up as the middle-man in paying the Nicaraguan contras. Prince Bandar has in fact been in and out of the shadows around various ‘deep events’ ever since, and his covert CV is a lengthy one.2 […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Major Walker, as he was linked to Oliver North’s highly questionable activities in Central America. Walker had allowed KMS to provide arms and general assistance to the Contras, as well as some rather harsh ‘hands-on’ assistance in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua.2 2 The media attention that this episode received prompted Walker and his colleague […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] recalled the libertarian right which was then a force in the Federation of Conservative Students – all that macho posturing in support of the Cold War, the Contras in Nicaragua and the South African government against the ANC. How many of them knew they were part of psy-ops operations being run by South African […]

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