The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] of Christ is one of the finest ‘Mission Accomplished’ statements to be found. () The image is uncluttered, the victim/hero takes centre stage, and there is no pope emoting over Christ’s shoulder. (Real power is when you do not even need to be in the picture.()) Contrast this to President Bush’s busy, visually over-detailed […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] has turned out to be. The item that struck me is the authors’ reproduction of an early interview on the subject of the assassination attempt on the Pope given by Claire Sterling, in which the ‘Bulgarian connection’ is described as ‘crazy’. Getting CAIB isn’t easy in the UK. It used to be stocked by […]

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The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] naked Mafia shit that he is. Take the rest of the Mafia and cancer with him. A truly American service. As his Mafia brother stated (as the Pope leaped into the ‘Holy Crusade’ of Vietnam) — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – but what you can do for your country.’ […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman in the early 1980s ‘had very good penetration of the Bulgarian secret services’ and that these clandestine CIA sources had found no […]

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Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] US State of the Union speeches. President Bush gave his this year as climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides […]

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Ratlines: how the Vatican’s Nazi networks betrayed Western intelligence to the Soviets

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] with distinctive SS tattoo marks. The Catholic Church did all it could to save what it called these “poor refugees’: Bishop Ivan Bucko, with help from the Pope, acted on their behalf in much the same way as Father Dragonovic did with the Croatian Ustashi. After “basking in the sun’ in Italy for two […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] remains a virtual network linking FOI movements globally and an ‘institutional memory’ for transparency and access to information rights throughout the world. Notes See for example: Justin Pope, ‘9/11 conspiracy theorists thriving’, Associated Press Online 7 August 2006; Richard Roeper, ‘Academics fill grassy knoll spot abandoned by Oliver Stone’, Chicago Sun Times 8 August […]

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What is Opus Dei?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

Noam Friedlander London: Conspiracy Books/Collins and Brown, 2005, p/bk, £8.99   Apart from being an anagram of Oedipus, Opus Dei is a Roman Catholic organisation, which has grown from beginnings in Spain in the 1920s, led by José Maria Escriva, to being an evangelising force within the Catholic Church, aimed as much at the lay … Read more

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] halt the persecutions and exterminations in Nazi-occupied Europe. In his book Who Is My Liege? Young gives an authoritative account of this approach through Monsignor Montini, later Pope Paul VI, which is strangely ignored in recent lengthy and inaccurate publications on this controversial topic. For his work in Rome Young was awarded an MBE, […]

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