The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] give one example, to show their methods – the deaths of the British journalist Jonathan Moyle in Chile, Ian Spiro, said to be working either for the CIA or MI6 – or both – and Abbie Hoffman. Moyle’s in there because he was interested, apparently, in some of the same people as Casolaro; and […]

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Operation Mind Control

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] by Dell Paperbacks. It came out around the same time as John Marks’ The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, a rather anodyne book which, after dealing with CIA and military LSD experiments which caused at least one unwitting victim to jump out a window, decided that ‘mind control’ of the Manchurian Candidate variety did […]

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The Cecil King coup plot

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] there would have been no Bloody Sunday. As I’ve explained elsewhere, the genesis of the Provisional IRA lies in the attempts by Fianna Fail (and possibly the CIA) to create right-wing death squads to neutralise the then Official IRA leadership.(19) However, the PIRA were transformed into a significant force by an inept state repression […]

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NASA, Nazis & JFK: the Torbitt Document and the JFK Assassination

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] it doesn’t actually substantiate the claim made by ‘Torbitt’ for which it is offered as evidence. I’m reasonably certain that ‘Torbitt’ is disinformation, probably produced by the CIA in the wake of the Garrison inquiry. It may even have been a response to the French disinformation production, Farewell America, a couple of years before. […]

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The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] plan to use British Nazis to bomb the Notting Hill Carnival – fortunately thwarted). Herman and Brodhead argue that there is no hard evidence to suggest the CIA led or even allowed the plot against the Pope. The KGB certainly look less guilty than the CIA. But the CIA played a crucial role in […]

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The two Indonesias and the two Americas

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s acute crisis today recalls in its details the political uncertainty at the end of the Sukarno era more than thirty […]

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9/11: The new evidence

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] so complicated and so much bigger than they would have needed for the purpose of providing a pretext for assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. The discovery that CIA Director at the time, George Tenet, ‘forgot’ about two meetings with George Bush just before 9/11, one lasting most of the day, in Texas, leads Henshall […]

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Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] intelligence agents illegal, West wrote an article in The Times condemning the BlochFitzgerald and Verrier books for publishing ‘names ‘ . He also cited the case of CIA officer Richard Walsh who was assassinated in Athens in the late seventies following, it is claimed, his naming by Philip Agee. In actual fact, this is […]

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Blinded by the light: Puppet Masters: the Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] In fact as his evidence often shows, domestic elements needed no encouragement from abroad. This is not to deny the proven murderous capabilities of NATO and/or the CIA, but rather to point out they are an all too easy target, and that the attribution needs to be specifically proved in each case. For such […]

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A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] of the government’s crimes against us continue, in full force, and are on the increase. Moreover, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration , under the guidance of ‘ex’- CIA agents, is funding thousands of projects to experiment and establish a police-state apparatus with all those techniques the CIA has perfected against other countries. Virtually all […]

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