Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] for four to five weeks prior to the day of the anti-Gaddafi demonstration by the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, an organisation financed by the CIA. Unbelievably, this operation was wound up the day before the demonstration! Dr Thomas is convinced that the single bullet which killed the police officer was fired […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] for the moronic citizen-voters. (And, of course, only LaRouche has the key to unlock the mystery.) () Take the following sentence of the author’s: ‘Under a top-secret CIA research project, code-named MK-Ultra, British and American scientists began carrying out experiments using psychedelic and other mind-altering drugs.’ That bit is true (though the British role […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] Although he was occasionally inclined to unsupported conspiracy theorising towards the end of his life, Prouty was the author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] there is one obvious problem. They note ‘Council on Foreign Relation member Clinton’s Whitehouse contains 300 or more Council on Foreign Relations members he appointed to the CIA, NSC, State Department, and other agencies.’ The roundtable people/person interpret the near universal membership of the CFR among US elite managers to mean that the CFR […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Eye speculating that the World Wildlife Fund was some kind of cover for intelligence personnel. This thought cropped up once again with the obituary of the former CIA officer Donald Aspinall Allan (Washington Post, 5 August 2006 ). Allan’s career included spells at the New YorkTimes, Newsweek, the Reporter and the North American Newspaper […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] IRIS, both events taking place in late 1956. In Lobster 19 and in The Clandestine Caucus I suggested that the post-1956 Common Cause must have been a CIA operation because of the presence on its post-1956 board of two men with links to the CIA. I now think this is probably false. The revelation […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] us that on seven separate occasions in the build-up to the war on Iraq editor Alton refused to publish well-sourced stories from its US correspondent that the CIA knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. Ed Vulliamy repeatedly filed his on-the-record account with supporting documentation from Mel Goodman, the former head […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
Orwellian control, public denial, and the murder of President Kennedy E. Martin Schotz Kurtz, Ulmer and DeLu cia, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1996 Distributed in the UK by Plough Publishing House (at 01580 883344), £15.50 This is a very odd book. It is beautifully printed, bound and laid-out – a pleasure to handle. Unfortunately the content […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] with a reputation for physically abusing suspects, espe cially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] associates at Stoy. Given this, it is possible that he was merely a conduit for Cold War funds from other sources, either MI6 or, more likely, the CIA. Berlusconi Andersen’s government contacts don’t stop there. With the election of Silvio Berlusconi in 1994, Italy nearly became the first Western country to be run from […]