Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] lobbyist for Haiti, a country where de Morenschildt was actively pursuing business deals and intelligence missions. (29) In short, the McDonald/Kimsey/Capell network appears to have been a disinformation clique centred around the SOJ, and aiming to smear the Soviets (and Goldwater opponent Lyndon Johnson) with responsibility for one of the great political crimes in […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] CIA. Insofar as this view is perhaps not entirely consistent with the facts its propagation is a form of psychological warfare waged against the American people (‘ disinformation’ is the term of art), corrupting the processes of a democracy. Most thoroughly denied, minimized, shoved into a drawer while attention is directed elsewhere, are Helms’s […]

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Remote Viewers, and, Psychic Warrior

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] very good book. (An opinion Victorian shares, incidentally.) If this book (along with his Channel 4 TV programme on the same subject) is part of some CIA disinformation operation in tandem with the official disclosure (and official rubbishing) of the Remote Viewing program, it’s too clever for me. After interviewing most of the people […]

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The secret of the 1917 ‘Balfour declaration’

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] obviously controversial, there is a huge body of literature, just on the Balfour Declaration alone. What follows (Section 2) deals mainly with the British imperialist conspiracy. Much disinformation still persists, such as Lloyd George’s story that it was a reward to Weizmann for his acetone production process as a contribution to the war effort. […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] the CIA. Collins Radio was one of the many sources of ‘cover’ used by the CIA and the Reader’s Digest has been extensively used to run CIA disinformation. (63) David Pelham James — a Conservative M.P. for fourteen years, James was a Director of the Catholic publishing house, Hollis and Carter, the publishers of […]

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A short history of Lobster

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[…] hysteria on the British right in the 1970s about the threat from the left and the belief of Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson that there was a disinformation campaign against him and his government. He was right: the hysteria and the campaign were largely the work of serving or former intelligence officers. We had […]

Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; Crozier’s financial funnel, the International Freedom Fund Establishment. The central […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] in the 1970s. Was he, I thought, one of the correspondents recruited by MI5 in the big F branch expansion circa 1973-5? Did that explain all the disinformation run through the Sunday Times by James Adams, for example? Apparently not. I wrote to Mr Neil and he replied that he was ‘never approached’ by […]

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The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] print media and relevant websites. The book is remarkably up-to-date, featuring many events from 2005 and covers all the most obvious ‘conspiracies’ up to and including the disinformation surrounding the invasion of Iraq in 2003. There is a bias towards American material in the book; but the bulk of the extant material emanates from […]

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Who Owns Agca? Book Reviews: Plots to Kill the Pope

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] half a million dollars to Edward J. Epstein for his Legend, which tried, unsuccessfully, to attribute Lee Harvey Oswald to the KGB. On Legend, see my essay in Lobster 2. Frank Brodhead and Edward S. Herman, ‘The KGB Plot To Assassinate The Pope: A Case Study In Free World Disinformation’ in Covert Action No 19.

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