Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] genuine, many forged.196 For the most part IRD tried, yet again, to establish the insurgents as a part of the Soviet global conspiracy: Ireland was ‘the next Cuba’. But after the re-election of the Wilson government in 1974 they also began trying to show support for the IRA from a Labour Party influenced by […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] substitute for armed force in resisting Communist inroads in the Third World.’ 1 This ultimately led to complacency in tactics and methods, and the subsequent failure in Cuba in 1961. Guatemalan politics was also transformed, but not along the path of ‘success’ – as the CIA operation was codenamed – and democracy but one […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] a profile of Holt by Bill Kelly when he first appeared in the early 90s. ‘Driving to New Orleans, Holt, Belcher and Young delivered Fair Play for Cuba Committee leaflets to Guy Bannister’s Camp Street office. Holt had made the leaflets in California. “These were professionally done, and not the leaflets with the 544 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies.26 A committee of 19 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power microwaves, according to a report released by the National Academies.26 A committee of 19 […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] ‘Confessions of a Watergate Burglar’, True, August 1974, p. 74. Sturgis also said the team was looking for a Cuban memorandum on CIA and DIA operations against Cuba, including assassination plots, and information about O’Brien or other Democratic Party leaders profiting from kickbacks from concessionaires at the party convention. Presumably such information could be […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] accounting firms specialised in producing deceptive balance sheets to undervalue companies for tax purposes. This practice was especially common for US corporations operating in Latin America, e.g. Cuba and Guatemala.17 The fraud was only exposed when nationalist governments in those countries tried to enforce compensation for eminent domain actions based on tax returns that […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has had a major influence on many of those studying the activities […]

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