The British Watergate

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] (Mr. Campbell-Savours) If such allegations were raised in the United States, Congressional Committees of inquiry would be set up to examine them. That is what happened over Watergate, and it is happening today over the supply of weapons to Iran. When Americans feel that their constitution is being challenged by anti-democratic bodies, the first […]

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the country lecturing on what he has learned about ‘conspiracies that dominate the world….and why it is we want so much to believe this kind of story.’ Watergate and Dallas 35 years on and the FBI has made available its Watergate case files(9) while the Washington Post modestly reminds us of its part in […]

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Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate Jonathan Marshall Note: this article is excerpted from an unpublished book titled Watergate, the American Deep State, and the Legacy of Secret Government by Jonathan Marshall. The Watergate affair of 1972-74, though widely regarded as one of the the […]

White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story by Phil Stanford

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: White House Call Girl The Real Watergate Story Phil Stanford Washington State: Feral Press, 2013, $17.95, p/b Feralhouse.com O ne of the unanswered questions in the received versions of the Watergate affair was: why did the White House ‘plumbers’ want to bug the phones at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in the Watergate complex? […]

Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] trying to create a parallel intelligence system and state department under his control at the National Security Council to by-pass both State and the CIA. If the Watergate affair was, as some believe, an anti-Nixon conspiracy by the CIA, in my view this is a good candidate for the reason behind it; it was […]

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Silent Coup: the Removal of Richard Nixon

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] CIA.’ Well, something like that. Mrs Nixon’s death was announced only a week after Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches series broadcast a Barbara Newman documentary, ‘The Key to Watergate’ (June 16), a light gloss on this book. When the programme finished I went to the back issues of Lobster to re-read the review of Silent […]

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Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] beginning of public hearings of the House Committee on Assassinations, the CIA was about to admit that one of its former employees, Howard Hunt, one of the Watergate ‘plumbers’, had taken part in the assassination of John Kennedy. The admission would be a ‘limited hang-out’. Hunt sued Spotlight; Marchetti had — or was willing […]

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Puppet Masters: the political use of terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] 40 years Italy’s political system has been subverted by US-funded parapolitics, demonstrating the universal application of the late Ralph J. Gleason’s First Law of American Politics After Watergate: no matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you could possibly imagine. In Italy’s case, not only was it worse, it […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody outside Whitehall did. But we do have ‘Watergate politics’ and have had them since the […]

Book bargain of the year

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] the American writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a […]

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