The Conspirators: secrets of an Iran-Contra insider

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] Department 4 of the Central Directorate – otherwise known as the Domestic Wet Operations Division of the CIA.’ ‘Wet operations’ used to the euphemism used by the KGB for assassination. Do we really believe the CIA uses the same euphemism? Do we believe the CIA has anything named anything remotely like that? It might […]

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The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] kept warm since the late 1970s when it was put together by anti-communists seeking ways of keeping the Soviet ‘threat’ alive under conditions of détente (the world–terror–sponsored–by–the– KGB thesis) and by Israeli propagandists looking for sticks with which to beat the Palestinians. And since then this ‘threat’ has worked a treat, ramifying and multiplying […]

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Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role […]

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More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] on 20 August 2001 Gorbachev attributed the coup to a wire-tapped conversation he had with other Soviet politicians in which he proposed removing the head of the KGB and Minister of Defence.(7) Which sounds a good deal more like the world we know. Remarking on the reports that John Smith’s widow had been put […]

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Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] are running. Over at the Reader’s Digest Edward J. Epstein’s preposterous book Legend is about to be published, reaffirming the Warren Commission’s central findings — with a KGB twist added. The CIA have another disinformation hare running, a faked document purporting to be a CIA internal memo from 1966 which refers to Hunt being […]

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Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, the belief in the all-conquering guile of the KGB…… Leo Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House […]

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Moscow on the Hudson?

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] Romanovs’ trying to turn the clock back and America speeding it forward (or, feudalism versus capitalism); corporations having rights as individuals, an individual having absolute right; the KGB, the CIA; rule by elites, one by decree, the other in a popular vote; ever-expanding territorial land grab towards their Pacific and Arctic meeting points; destinies […]

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Lundy, and, Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] disinformation for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for […]

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Ronald Gray (1920-2008)

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Bookdealer, ‘we can supply anything you want on espionage, and much more.’ Over the years, he did! Hammersmith Books provided books to many customers world-wide, including the KGB ‘illegal’ Gordon Lonsdale, who, when he was in Winson Green Prison, began to write a definitive assessment of what SOE had actually achieved in World War […]

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Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] making concessions to the Palestinians. On the evidence presented by Chamish this is about as accurate as saying that JFK was murdered by Oswald working for the KGB. Chamish shows in some detail that the Rabin killing was a variation on the Sirhan Sirhan attack on Robert Kennedy. Yes, Rabin’s ‘assassin’ was firing at […]

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