The Real Gemstone File

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] naked Mafia shit that he is. Take the rest of the Mafia and cancer with him. A truly American service. As his Mafia brother stated (as the Pope leaped into the ‘Holy Crusade’ of Vietnam) — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – but what you can do for your country.’ […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]

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Some examples of corporate, cultural and state PR

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] US State of the Union speeches. President Bush gave his this year as climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides […]

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Shorts

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman in the early 1980s ‘had very good penetration of the Bulgarian secret services’ and that these clandestine CIA sources had found no […]

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

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] of Christ is one of the finest ‘Mission Accomplished’ statements to be found. () The image is uncluttered, the victim/hero takes centre stage, and there is no pope emoting over Christ’s shoulder. (Real power is when you do not even need to be in the picture.()) Contrast this to President Bush’s busy, visually over-detailed […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] has turned out to be. The item that struck me is the authors’ reproduction of an early interview on the subject of the assassination attempt on the Pope given by Claire Sterling, in which the ‘Bulgarian connection’ is described as ‘crazy’. Getting CAIB isn’t easy in the UK. It used to be stocked by […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t […]

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Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] of about one-fifth of Spain’s parliamentary deputies, as well as the capital of numerous banks, conglomerates and construction firms. Its influence has spread to the Vatican, where Pope John Paul 2 recently recognised it as a “personal prelature”; to Latin America generally, where Archbishop Lopez Trujillo, an Opus Dei ally, is now President of […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] Goodman was one of those in the Agency who did not believe that the KGB – or its Bulgarian allies – had run Ali Agca at the Pope. (9) Notes 1 – this ceased in October owing to the illness of its moderator, John McCartney. 2 See also, for example, Daily Telegraph, 12 […]

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Correspondence

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. A 9mm Browning Hi-power (used by Agca) is not fired with any intent of […]

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