Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

Shorts Yorkshire Post (14 March ’92) reported the admission by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important … Read more

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] may even have brought about, the end of the cold war and the shadowy skullduggery that conflict entailed. Author’s footnote to history: This writer was told by Senator Carl Levin (circa 1984) that there would be no congressional hearing into the probability Captain Chun embarked on his mission and 240 innocent passengers perished on […]

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Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of having ‘three other girlfriends’ while ‘living with Marla’.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by hostile U.S. intelligence officials of unsubstantiated reports that Russian spies ‘tried to blackmail him […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] the Nicaraguan Contras) being at that policy’s visible centre. In 1977 I was concerned about the access of foreign parafascists and WACL publicists to the office of Senator Thurmond and the staff of the National Security Council. Today General Singlaub, the President of WACL, has access, through his support work for the Contras, to […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the CIA to block an investigation by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure into his involvement in illegal wiretapping.51 The subcommittee was chaired by Senator Edward Long of Missouri, who was disturbed by recent revelations of extensive FBI electronic surveillance of the Mob owners of Las Vegas casinos. The illegal wiretaps […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] at the Re-election Committee’.9 Dean turned first to an ex-New York City policeman who had undertaken sensitive assignments for the White House, including digging up dirt on Senator Edward Kennedy. But Dean and other top White House officials agreed this gumshoe was ‘an incredibly cautious person’ and therefore a bad choice. Dean knew of […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] aggressive shareholder lawsuit launched by his take-no-prisoners New York attorney, Roy Cohn.49 Cohn had recently been forced to resign from his controversial job as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Communisthunting committee, after being accused of misusing his power to win special privileges for his 25-year-old friend and ‘psychological warfare’ expert, David Schine. Cohn […]

The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hope, so little sense’, The Times, 26 September 2002. 95 Financial Times, 6 July 2007 (emphasis added). those contenders who had supported the invasion. Forester had supported Senator Hilary Clinton, but when Barack Obama had won the Democrat nomination she had switched parties, to back the neo-conservative favourite Senator John McCain.96 Forester had justified […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] overseen at cabinet level in then-Governor Bush’s executive).4 The official investigation of 9/11 was led by two of Jeb’s contemporary fellow Floridians, Representative Porter Goss (Rep.) and Senator Bob Graham (Dem.). Goss represented 2 Huffman Aviation has now closed. There is another flight school called Huffman Aviation in Texas, home state of Jeb’s brother […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism Michael Carlson D iscussing the recently released Senate report on American torture, my friend Michael Goldfarb quoted Senator Frank Church, speaking when his Senate committee’s report was issued in 1975,1 in the wake of the Rockefeller and Pike reports, the latter not released but leaked by Daniel […]

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