Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] probably worked for the CIA in some covert capacity, and on 22nd November 1963 had been in a New Orleans courtroom with Carlos Marcello, the Louisiana mafia boss, for whom he was working as a private investigator. (It was widely believed that Ferrie had flown Marcello back from Mexico after Bobby Kennedy had him […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] had access to all information concerning the developments of the arsenal of toxic substances in the CIA.(12) After a trip to Paris and Norway, Olsen told his boss, Lt. Colonel Ruwet, that he was so unhappy that he would prefer to be discharged or fired to carrying on with his work. This led to […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at the time to talk, on the record. The story was run, briefly, in the British serious press. A couple of months later Peter Dale Scott […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] 2 CMLR 800 Royer, para 3 of the Ruling It has emerged recently from the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that a standard technique used by BOSS in the eighties and early nineties was the chemical inducement of a ‘stroke’ or ‘heart attack’. Press reports have stated that these chemicals were probably developed […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
John Perkins San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004, $25.95, h/b ( £14.50 from Amazon.co.uk in January 2005) This is an interesting book, though it is not quite as interesting as it sounded in the interviews with the author which are on the Net. The key material is Perkins’ account of working as an economist for an … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research Robin Ramsay ‘The unexpected and dramatic death of the famous, whether statesmen like John F Kennedy, or media stars like Marilyn Monroe, invariably give rise to conspiracy theories.’ Thus Cambridge historian, Christopher Andrew, during his disgraceful hatchet job on Hugh Thomas’ books about Rudolph Hess for BBC2 ‘s Timewatch … Read more
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] 16 Ninkovich p. 164 Warner ibid. p. 5 Francis Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, forthcoming. Warner p. 3. Braden’s boss was Wisner but it was Allen Dulles as CIA Deputy Director who gave the go-ahead for IOD, and Braden worked directly under Dulles. Wisner’s ‘forte was […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] although the ‘spin’ is homage to the baby, its real purpose is to flatter ‘ordinary’ people. (A bit like President Bush saying ‘the American people are the boss’.) It is one of the best examples of ‘fusion’ there is rich/poor/animals/the heavens united in reverence not least because the ‘real’ status quo are […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Charles Ellis. In 1963 Charles Ellis wrote to Sir William Stephenson (84) to tell him that he had been recommended to a new organization by his former boss at MI6, Sir Stewart Menzies. ‘I am kept busy with this INTERDOC organization. And together with other chaps, I have formed a working committee which is […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Notes From the Borderland Larry O’Hara now has his own journal, Notes from the Borderland, the first issue of which appeared in November last year. Like his previous pamphlets, this is full of fascinating information on the far right – the guts of the lead article on a charity scam being run in the UK … Read more