Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] discuss Iraq. In that Rycroft reports ‘C’, head of MI6, as saying, ‘There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable.’ A CIA analyst at the time, Paul Pillar, dates the decision to ‘the beginning of 2002’;(3) and in late February the Australian Ambassador to the UN, John Dauth, […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] Year’s Day 1981. (Sunday News 20th May 1984) SD The Brotherhood of Eternal Love Stuart Tendler and David May (Granada, London 1984) Frank Zappa always said the CIA were behind the psychedelic revolution. Maybe not, but there are some interesting characters and international crooks like Robert Vesco behind the financing of LSD production. Tendler […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] latter event is the main reason behind US pressure for polygraphs and union ban, as being computerised, Platform will be more vulnerable to union action. Claim that CIA fear of unions at GCHQ the main reason for union ban. Mail On Sunday 8th April GCHQ member (one of the union hold-outs) claims polygraph forced […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] and the brains/personalities of most of us will begin to wilt. There is one nit I would pick. After describing twenty five years of experiments by the CIA and others, Streatfield comes to the most recent group of people claiming to be the victims of malevolent state experiments. At www.mindcontrolforums.com he notes the accounts […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] elderly gentlemen sitting over cups of coffee and discussing world developments. What do these fellows want? MP ‘A’: These are no elderly gentlemen – they are former CIA and BND people working together. MP ‘X’: I feel it is dangerous if we publicize such things. If such matters were to become public, it would […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] in my local library with a UK price stuck over the dollar price, suggesting a few were imported. This should have been sub-titled ‘The Politics of the CIA in the 1980s’. I’ve read this twice, the second time to check that my initial perception that this was a very remarkable book was correct. It […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] buy the Soviet Union’s attempts to lay the blame at the CIA’s door.(8) Sterling describes in some detail the attempts by the West’s governments/intelligence agencies (especially the CIA – of course) to bury this ‘Bulgarian connection’. She professes to find this puzzling, probably demonstrating a refusal by such agencies to acknowledge the real nature […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] ‘October Surprise’ events (which has). The part of the deposition reproduced by PFP alleges, as the subhead has it, ‘Richard Brenneke puts mob boss John Gotti and CIA boss Donald Gregg in the middle of contra drug operations at Mena Airport.’ The March/April issue contains another important piece by Daniel Brandt, whose essay on […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] the Falkland Islands”. As a thesis it has its antecedents. Peter Dale Scott (and others) have demonstrated that the Pentagon Papers were systematically skewed to show the CIA in a favourable light vis a vis the Vietnam War – always right, and ignored by the politicians, the military and the foreign policy establishment who […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] important. If true, this is the most important weapons story since 1945. I mentioned an American — Harlan Girard — I had met who claimed that the CIA had been using him as an involuntary experimental subject, bombarding him with telepathically transmitted messages, instructions and pain. Harlan Girard’s claims are extremely difficult to deal […]