Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Army intelligence officer and CIA contract agent. In the Fall of 1964, Kimsey, having retired from the CIA with Dulles, was working with McDonald, then Chief of Security for Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Kimsey allegedly told McDonald at that time details of the plot to kill Kennedy. The actual assassin, Kimsey maintained, was […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] Bob Oeschler, who claims to have worked on a U.S. government-funded program working with crashed alien craft; retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency; and retired Rear Admiral Shapiro, former head of the Office of Naval Intelligence. As a former NSA head, Inman’s evidence in particular is quite a […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] hegemony of power at all levels threatens everything that has been gained by people in developed countries over the last two centuries: democratic rights and freedoms, economic security, the chance to live a dignified, pr0ductive, fulfilling life.’ The previous British referendum on ‘Europe’ was scarcely a balanced affair. Most of the press promoted the […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] No 6, as anyone who has attempted to transcribe 3 hours of conversation will appreciate). The edited conversation, ranging across the Vietnam war, the role of ‘national security intellectuals’ and, of course, the assassination of Kennedy, will be in No 7. To our knowledge this will be the first time Scott – in our […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] MMU appear to be Julian Lewis and the ubiquitous Lord Chalfont (The Independent November 11 1986). Lewis, one of the founders of the Coalition for Peace Through Security, is a member of something called Policy Research Associates, with Chalfont and Norris McWhirter said to be its patrons. (Daily Telegraph 19 November 1986). MMU seems […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Sanders, ‘There was a long silence. Finally, someone said, “Oops.”‘(39) Immediately there was a hurried meeting between the most senior people present. They quickly announced that National Security was being invoked. Destroying the messenger The day following the Press-Enterprise article, Sanders sent his other residue sample to CBS so they could run independent tests […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] operations, of murder and mayhem, and narrow escapes. Certainly this reflected a romantic streak in his intellectual make-up, but it also represented a belief that sometimes the security of the Empire required the services of adventurers who were not bound by conventional rules, men who could undertake the dirty, deniable, work best carried out […]
