The DFS, Silvia Duran and the CIA-Mafia connection

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] conversations.(2) In this collusion the CIA had the support of a sister Mexican agency which it had helped to create, the Mexican Dirección Federal de Seguridad (Federal Security Police), or DFS. The DFS, before it was abolished because of its deep involvement in Mexico’s drug traffic, was a key agency in the Mexica Gobernación […]

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Spooks and the House of Commons

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

An interesting piece by Mark Hollingsworth appeared in Punch of 23 May-5 June 2001, ‘Spooks in the House’, on intelligence and security personnel who become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a […]

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Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam soldiers being recruited to fight with the I.R.A. as paid gunmen and saboteurs. Until […]

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Tolerated Crime and Tolerated Murder

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] in protective custody in a Brooklyn jail. (5) A vigorous prosecution of the Tresca case was even less likely than of the earlier murder case, since national security could easily rationalise the decision not to risk exposing any intelligence-Mafia contacts in court. The same intelligence-Mafia background overshadows the Galindez affair. We now know that […]

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PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] prominent Iraqis living in Iraq was so sparse that, prior to the invasion, the KGB’s extensive files were being traded on the black market by rogue private security companies for huge sums of money. The spooks are also supposed to have listened too closely to some members of Iraq’s diaspora opposition. Unsurprisingly, they told […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] note for you: I firmly believe Robert Gates, the current Secretary of Defense and Bush Sr.’s right-hand man in the covert world, used computer cryptography and software security assets to get Bush Jnr. elected both times. I do not have direct knowledge of the operation, but research “Robert Gates”, “Bill Owns”, “electronic voting security”, […]

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John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] that “Bishop” met Oswald. In recent years other leads on “Bishop”/Phillips have appeared: Louis Arguelles, who teaches at the Arizona State University, states in “The US National Security State: the CIA and the Cuban Emigre Terrorism ” (in Race and Class, XVIII 4 1982) that she had a personal interview (in August 1980) with […]

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Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] West Germany, and the most recent issue (No2, 1987) is certainly no disappointment. Articles on German activities cover participation by the German Army in the Afghan War, security measures of the Berlin police for VIP visits, the condemnation by the ILO of the German state’s practice of excluding “extremists” from public employment (Berufsverbot); and, […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] inducing Sukarno, on March 14, 1957, to proclaim martial law, and bring ‘the officer corps legitimately into politics’. (31) By 1953 (if not earlier) the U.S. National Security Council had already adopted one of a series of policy documents calling for ‘appropriate action, in collaboration with other friendly countries, to prevent permanent communist control’ […]

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