Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat, for which I was pilloried by the media …in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] this contains an account of the intelligence cold war, and large chunks of American political life from post-WW2 to beyond Angleton’s fall in 1974 and the post- Watergate Senate and Congressional inquiries. This is seriously good history, as well as a biography; Holzman is a very good writer, with a style somewhere between the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] and lobbyists to 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 […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of Jonathan Marshall’s Parapolitics.The best mail order catalogue bar none on areas of […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute claim; Gilligan’s ‘sexed-up’ report;(22)the ‘British Watergate’ of the mobile labs which didn’t exist; the use of Kelly as a political pawn by Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and Geoff Hoon; the not-quite-leak of […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] recently came across these remarks from 1975 by Charlene Mitchell, speaking to a group called National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression: ‘It is suggested that since Watergate we need no longer have fear. Congress is on the alert and will protect us…The fact of the matter of course is that the dossiers continue […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] election victory. Crudely summarised, Scott shows the rise of the Pentagon and its industrial allies and political front men (almost entirely men). Recovering from the set-backs of Watergate, failure in Vietnam and associated revelations and Congressional enquiries, they revived the Cold War with Soviet Union – Team B and the Committee on the Present […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] website < http://www.fair.org/fair > for more about major media and the CIA-cocaine story. Walter Pincus, ‘How I Traveled Abroad On CIA Subsidy,’ San Jose Mercury, 18 February 1967, p. 14. Kathryn S. Olmsted, Challenging the Secret Government: The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] offers none – he 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 […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] Prouty’s general claims is hard to resist. He knows at first hand whereof he speaks; and some of his thesis has indeed been confirmed in the post- Watergate revelations of CIA links with the media, the Agency’s use of journalists, and the existence of ‘detailees’ – CIA agents working within the domestic US government.(2) […]
