Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] had worked, souring French-American relations; pushing de Gaulle into an anti-NATO corner; splitting the French Government so well that the wounds wouldn’t heal until Pompidou met with Nixon in June 1970 to secure French-American relations. It is against this background that we should view the book Farewell America, a Gaullist disinformation attempt to redress […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] was around $3 per barrel. By January 1974 the Benchmark price was just under $11.50pb. The background to this – at least in my view – was Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971.’ The actual section from the Bilderberg minutes says this: ‘An American speaker pointed out that one official […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of the United States […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] has confused John Major with his father, who did work in a circus for a time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti- Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in the longer term they may have felt […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] the American Security Council. All four elements have worked in collaboration since the days when Chinese nationalist gold, via a Mafia-tainted public relations firm, first made Richard Nixon a senator in 1950. (123) Take, for example, the American-Chilean Council (ACC) which Marvin Liebman founded in 1975, for a Chilean fee of $36,000 a year […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the Channel. How could they know?……. “They found Cook County”, was the jaundiced comment of one observer, recalling the infamous result that gave Kennedy his victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.’ Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the Cold War. In 1975 President […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] awash in American money and case officers. The politicians may not have known but I would bet the CIA and the military did. Robert Kennedy played the Nixon role in the original Bay of Pigs plan: he was the White House action officer. The Kennedys had good reason for doing something: a Presidential election […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more
