Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] behind US foreign policy…..was the defence of democracy’, is a joke. Or a lie. The ‘essential idea’ was to defend US economic and geopolitical interests and never mind how much (non-white) blood was spilt. It gets worse. I always look at the assassination of John Kennedy as a touchstone for academics writing about America […]

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

Who was who? The newly published Oxford Dictionary of National Biography not only surveys the lives of the great and the good, but also includes accounts of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). … Read more

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] wants’ at . 19 See, for example, . 20 6 inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) and ‘suspected’ (used twice) in that quotation above. Perhaps one day there will be some […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Vision. They’re evangelical Christians and partners with and funded by, inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) The Cambridge phone call redux Anthony Frewin reports: The BBC News website carried a story […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] all lies and nonsense. Fort Bliss really is situated at the four-state square conjunction as specified, but it had no role whatsoever in any of the USA’s mind control research. Nor is it connected to the US Navy, being a US Army post. The Navy’s early mind control research, Project CHATTER, was abandoned in […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the 26th of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue

[…] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] disclosure could seriously harm international relations. With the Soviet Union dissolved and Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Broderick on 13 May 1985, but in his record of that interview there is no mention of the document’s existence. That appears to be inexplicable, bearing in mind its obvious significance to the RUC investigation. Moreover, although Peter Broderick informed RUC DI Cooke that my superior officer in Psy Ops was Colonel Geoffrey Hutton, […]

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