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 […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Presstitutes Embedded in the Pay of the CIA A Confession from The Profession Udo Ulfkotte San Diego, California: progressivepress.com, 2019, p/b, £19.631 Robin Ramsay The first words in this book are from the publisher: ‘About the title: “In the Pay of the CIA” is a figure of speech, a bit of poetic license.’ But […]

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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 […]

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Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

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 […]

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From ‘Political’ to ‘Human’: the Lessons of Watergate and Vietnam

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] Vietnam are still unresolved, and still urgent. Above all it is easy to see an historic trail from Vietnam to Watergate in the current ‘world-wide infrastructure’ of CIA political influence, arms sales, and institutionalised parafascist repression. A recent essay by Renata Adler has in fact suggested that the ‘bottom line’ justifying Nixon’s ouster was […]

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Northern Ireland &; CIA, Nairac & Phone-tapping

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] always willing to roll over for the state when it comes to Irish questions? Perhaps one of our readers working for those dailies would care to explain. CIA in Northern Ireland The Irish Republic’s Military Intelligence (G.2) discovered that the CIA were behind a plot to spy on loyalist paramilitary groups. (Sunday News 27th […]

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In Brief. Libya. Syria and the Gulf oil war. Lester Coleman

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

The Libyan connection Putting Libya in the frame has been orchestrated from Langley by Vincent Canestraro, head of the CIA counter-terrorist section. In his book On The Trail of Terror: the inside story of the Lockerbie bombing, published in October 1991, David Leppard tells us this while completing one of the most amazing somersaults […]

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The Soviet ‘threat’: “Russia Puts The Brake On Military Spending”

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] describes a change in NATO estimates of Soviet military spending. What they are actually doing is anybody’s guess. This study, taken with an earlier version by the CIA which came to similar conclusions, marks the end of a period in which inflated estimates of Soviet military spending have been accepted (at least in public) […]

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Body of Secrets, and, Echelon

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] world of industrial espionage is a curiously under-reported place. Reading Bamford’s work proves the point. He appears to accept the proposition, made by James Woolsey, a former CIA director, (quoted in the Euro-report) that: ‘Even if espionage yielded economically usable intelligence, it would take an analyst a very long time to analyse the large […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

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 […]

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