Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] label), and technical products for various industries, including the defence department of the USA. In the latter it is listed as producing aircraft radomes, rocket motor cases, missile and rocket tubes, pressure vessels, transportable shelters, camouflage materials, and other products for defensive systems against chemical/biological warfare etc. I can only speculate here that some […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] dangerous because it was an unknown. (8) Which group? Right or left? The Soviets? Cubans? None of the alternatives promised anything but horrors: some promised a Cuban Missile Crisis – or worse. Did the SS have any real choice, any political alternative, but make sure the ‘best evidence’ (the corpse) fitted the existence of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] have to be partisan. As a result, an image that had ‘legs’ was not even considered, let alone used. Good PR is about accurate communications. Unlike a missile marked ‘Patriot’ (5) or ‘Made in Britain’, a T-shirt can strike its target precisely. Hatred of the USA And so to al-Qaida’s second political message, hatred […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] in the killings. Chile Documentation Projectwww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm Chile: 16,000 Secret US Documents Declassified. Press Release at www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/ The Real 13 Days – The Hidden History of the Cuban Missile Crisis http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/ Includes a detailed chronology of events relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis; images of Soviet missile installations and declassified documents: declassified intelligence reports, national […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the military it was straightforward: the US had the strategic nuclear advantage (the ‘ missile gap’ had been forgotten) and thus could and should invade Cuba. Never mind even pretending to the world that it was a Cuban insurrection – the […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Clint Eastwood Movies Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and to be released in Britain in December 2006, is an example of post-9-11 PR. It tells the story of the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima and has been described as the first film in which the balance of combat and public relations has … Read more
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] friend in the sixties of another CIA station Chief, Archie Roosevelt. (10) Both Brown and Gaitskell later received secret briefings from Cooper and Roosevelt on the Cuban Missile Crisis. This relationship with United States agencies developed when Brown accepted ‘one of the American Congressional Trusts which enabled me to spend six weeks in the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
See note(1) By some standards, the loss of 269 souls aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 on August 31, 1983, was a modest disaster. The Titanic, for example, claimed 1503 lives; the Lusitania 1198. But historians may come to believe that the political implications of the downing of the civilian 747 airliner by a Soviet … Read more
