Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] real-world Cluedo, into a genuinely useful forum for political analysis. His thesis is a development from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the story documented three years before the […]
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 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 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 SUCCESS The CIA in Guatemala, 1954 James Lusher On 18 June 1954, following the positive outcome in Iran a year previously, backed by the President, Congress and the State Department, the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA David Black Is History a fiction? In his best-seller of 1991, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair, the late John Bossy claimed that Bruno spied for Queen Elizabeth’s enforcer, Sir Francis Walsingham, at the French embassy in London. This was […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: Finks How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers Joel Whitney London and New York: O/R Books, 2016 1 paperback, 328 pages, bibliography, notes, index W hitney had the bright idea of exploring some of the activities of the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) in the 1950s and 60s by showing how the […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: Mary’s Mosaic The CIA conspiracy to murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer and their vision for world peace Peter Janney New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $26.95, h/b M ary Pinchot Meyer is one of the footnotes to the Kennedy assassination. She married future CIA bigwig Cord Meyer in 1945 and their social circle in […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: Beyond Bugliosi: the Manson murders revisited CHAOS Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties Tom O’Neill (with Dan Piepenbring) London: Heinemann, 2019, £20 (h/b) David Black Hollywood Horrors In March 1999, as the thirtieth anniversary of the Manson murders approached, Tom O’Neill was assigned by the movie magazine, Premiere, to […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: Just deserters? Just deserts? Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves Matthew Sweet London: Picador, 2018; 351 pp., illustrations, notes Anthony Frewin There’s a footnote to a footnote in the history of the Vietnam War, and that’s the story of the deserters. It could be said to begin […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] and refers readers’ enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. […]
