The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] businessman and one-time drug trafficer, and George Petrie, ex-Special Forces, whose speciality in Vietnam was to lead assassination teams behind Vietcong lines. Petrie has ‘associates in the CIA’. A short time before the Grenada invasion Mr Wyche, Democratic Chairman of the House Intelligence Sub-Committee on Central America, disclosed that covert intelligence operations were likely […]

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The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] tag on the murder of me and my family and my friends – then supposed to be a Yablonski-type wipe out – and since changed to a CIA type slow-torture die on the vine type of thing. They know how to hurt all right. I watch my mother and father rot daily – in […]

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The death of Italy’s military intelligence chief in Iraq and some examples of persuasion

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] impact on the spook market of the rise of the Chinese, Korean and Indian economies is considerable, other countries can match what the US can offer. The CIA could consider selling off its name while its brand recognition, in an ever more crowded market, remains high. Watch out for CIA merchandise! US irritations with […]

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Overthrowing Whitlam

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] out his version of the overthrowing of the Gough Whitlam government. The most interesting point he made was that the UK intelligence services were involved with the CIA. Extraordinary though this now seems, this had never struck me. The links between the US, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence services are detailed in the […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] trying to bring to light the truth about Guatemalan death squads; a brief memoir from Ralph McGehee of CIABase on his time as an analyst in the CIA; and a transcript of testimony given to a Congressional seminar by Alfred McKoy, author of The Politics of Heroin, ‘C.I.A. Covert Actions and Drug Trafficking’. $20 […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] The British and American systems’ senior intelligence personnel used last-minute information which purported to show that Iraq was a threat. In the USA the Director of the CIA and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Colin Powell, used the now notorious ‘uranium from Niger’ scam – based on crudely forged documents (6) – […]

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Operation Julie revisited: the strange career of Ron Stark, parapolitical alchemist

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] network, but was blocked from probing them by the powers-that-be. One major player he was espe cially interested in, New Yorker Ronald Stark, was suspected of having CIA connections. Ron Stark (1938-84) was first convicted in 1962 for making a false job application for government service and imprisoned for parole violation. Between 1967, when […]

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Demos

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] against the Labour Party. (25) Haseler worked for the ‘left-face’ of the US National Strategy Information Centre (NSIC)one of the funders ofBrian Crozier’s Forum World Features, a CIA front. He co-authored Eurocommunism with the NSIC’s Roy Godson, who ‘helped Oliver North channel contributions from private donors to the contras by using the Heritage Foundation […]

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Tittle-tattle: New Labour – old Spooks?

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] The only real multiracial political grouping in Fiji was/is the Labour Party. In his Rogue State (p. 153) William Blum gives a brief account of an apparent CIA operation concerning Fiji in 1987. (1) In April of that year, within a month of his winning a democratic election, Prime Minister Bavrada of the Labour […]

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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] away, sold, thrown out or pulped. William Welsh, Deputy Librarian of Congress, believed that ‘libraries shouldn’t be regarded as “warehouses of little-used material”‘, while the sinister Patri cia Battin, of the Commission on Preservation and Access, has said that ‘the value, in intellectual terms of the proximity of the book to the user has […]

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