The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] change their record-keeping procedures with astonishing rapidity. Only the file clerks who suffer through each of these reorganizations can track down and locate the cold files. The Pentagon could not even find the name of the office within Military Intelligence that coordinated its old Sensitive Document files. As the World War II era clerks […]

After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] Bush overturned America’s 25-year ban on state assassinations, giving the CIA permission to eliminate individuals designated by the President. He comes across the Grey Ghosts in the Pentagon (‘a private army of professional assassins’(28)) and briefly examines the slashed wrist death of journalist Danny Casolaro. However after due consideration – and talking to individuals […]

Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] there for all the family, David. Icke sounds surprised at being ridiculed. He might find sympathy from William R. Lyne, the author of Space Aliens from the Pentagon. In a flyer for his excellent catalogue Flatland,(2) Jim Martin comments: ‘Whatta title. Lyne claims info on man-made saucers, Nazi tech, CIA disinfo on free energy […]

An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the use of ‘personnel from’ the various agencies above. The involvement of those agencies, as agencies, has not been proved. There is no official paper: indeed, the Pentagon has denied that the Army unit Pepper claims was involved existed in 1968. We don’t know how high up the chain of command within the military […]

The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] local sentiments: Pir Baksh Bardiwal, the intelligence chief for the Eastern Shura, said that he would welcome a massive influx of U.S. troops. He believed that the Pentagon planners were making a grave mistake by not surrounding Tora Bora. A U.S. journalist who was there, Philip Smucker, claims that the treachery of the local […]

Neck Deep

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the Bush cabinets, the most brutal of which is the account of Colin Powell, whose career as ‘house nigger’ (my term, not the Parrys’), first for the Pentagon and then for the Bush regime, climaxed when he delivered the regime’s lies about Iraq’s weapons before the UN. Thirty years a soldier/bureaucrat, Powell is no […]

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] post 9/11 world, however, nobody cares and the book is just one more attack on the CIA, which has all but been supplanted in Washington by the Pentagon, which is not accountable to Congress for covert operations, and the rise of the private sector intelligence firms. Notes Author of Portrait of a Cold Warrior […]

Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] In his final paragraphs Van Wynsberghe adds Lobster and Alex Cox to his line-up of dupes and villains. Lobster ‘began running reports on psychic cliques in the Pentagon’. I did? Not quite. And poor old Cox ‘maintained that there was a fascist conspiracy in the U.S. security establishment to encourage belief in UFO’s’. He […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was a major piece of whistle-blowing as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and […]

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