Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] nationalists. It is not simply the carnage that made Korea a staging ground for Vietnam. Dean Rusk, a major player in the US war against Vietnam and Cuba, was an intelligence officer (spy) in Korea. He even claims credit for fixing the line dividing Korea against itself and for the benefit of the US […]