Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of the US-sponsored coup d’état were deep and far reaching. For the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, ‘its triumph confirmed the belief….that covert operations offered a safe, inexpensive substitute for […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Right is still very much with us. Having remained loyal to Donald Trump, with many of its supporters even taking part in the 6 January 2021 attempted coup at the Capitol in Washington DC, we can already see likely rivals for the Republican nomination for the 2024 Presidential election trying to enlist the support […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] unpredictable outcome of a CIA operation that, in the simplest terms, tripped on its own shoelaces.’6 3 His theory was amplified by authors of the best-seller Silent Coup and endorsed on the speaker circuit by Watergate burglar Gordon Liddy.6 4 They hold that when details of a Columbia Plaza prostitution ring became known to […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the Generals made clear, repeatedly, that they would not countenance Trump trying to overthrow the election result. They refused to be a part of the kind of coup Trump was clearly plotting – which would have put in place an authoritarian regime modelled on those he so openly admired. If they had made it […]