Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] to ‘circumvent the informational controls imposed by authoritarian regimes on their citizens……… for example, the Chinese students in Tiananmen Square and the Russian democrats during the Moscow coup used computer networks to communicate with kindred spirits around the world’. It notes that it played an important role in recent conflicts. Citizens of Sarajevo could […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] second paper provides a glimpse of the relevant operational guidelines. It begins by reaffirming that ‘It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup’. Even if this could not happen by 24 October ‘efforts in this regard will continue vigorously beyond that date’, on a clandestine basis ‘so that the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Wynne did indeed embroider aspects of his life. But, the fact remains, Wynne did play a part in what is generally regarded as British Intelligence’s greatest post-war coup. For some reason though, Allason was not prepared to praise Wynne in any way for his role. There is another obituary which could be written about […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
A Franco-German Bomb? A study by the German historian Werner Abelhauser casts new light on Franco-German efforts to provide the youthful European Economic Community with military capability.(1) The essay is notable because it adds another dimension to our grasp of how and why the EEC was formed. Most modern work follows from the thesis developed … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] a fabrication by the USA and UK. But to produce the evidence is another. Curtis has produced the evidence – and, as the extract on the Iran coup reproduced above shows, often from official papers. And to my knowledge, no-one else has. Given the pathetic intellectual and social deference paid to the Foreign Office […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] are state agents, and should be replaced. I am not saying this means that the pamphlet is a state production, merely that the call for an internal coup is redolent of my earlier analysis. My view of C18 remains that it was not set up by MI5, but they have sought to influence it, […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the Kennedy White House while secretly coaching the cabal of generals who murdered President Diem and his opium-addicted brother Nhu on 2 November 1963. After the bloody coup d’etat, Conein remained in South Vietnam until 1968 – but not without further controversy. As noted, McCoy contends that Ellsberg and Conein had formed a fast […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] directing the UDA killer gangs using intelligence from the British Army and RUC Special Branch. Larkin thinks that the ‘collusion’ can be traced back to the ‘quiet coup’ run in the UK in the 1970s which led to the election of Mrs Thatcher. This chapter, the one which he has written from other published […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] serious row in September 1988 when we considered inviting Gerry Adams on to the programme. Adams had apparently agreed to what was at the time quite a coup: he would sit down with sworn political enemies. One of our team, seeking advice on how best to construct a balanced group of discussants, asked a […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] I attempt a general overview of U.S. relations since World War 2 to the drug traffic, including Genovese, in my Foreword to Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup (Boston: South End Press, 1980), pp. 1-26. 4 3 Brooklyn jail.5 A vigorous prosecution of the Tresca case was even less likely than of the earlier […]
