Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] in the truth than in defending any fixed position. WPR No 2 “It has been confirmed by Ross Surber of the US Department of State that ex- CIA Director and coup-master, Vernon Walters, met with Colonel Rabuka in Suva two weeks before the coup. (Fiji Sun 6 July 1987). The conversation was supposedly concerned […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Hungarian uprising of 1956, addressing a meeting of Eastern European refugees……cheered throughout to the echo by people carrying banners saying ‘Kill the reds.’ ‘ (38) Into the CIA web The BLEF was also working with the European Movement at a time when the CIA was supplying most of the Movement’s funds. The Movement had […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] computers to ISD (i.e. IEC in Mardian’s Internal Security Division). (45) In like vein the CIA’s new director, William Colby, as part of his reorientation of the CIA towards foreign targets, terminated, in 1974, the CIA’s Operation Chaos for the surveillance of U.S. citizens in conjunction with the IEC (though when the Rockefeller Commission […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Veterans of a notorious Miami-based CIA dirty tricks team have boasted that they were helped by British Intelligence officers to sink an East German ship loaded with British-built Leyland buses. Three years after the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the MV Magdeburg was hit by a Japanese ship in the River Thames. […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] Mafia for the killing. (1) The other, embodied in the work of Lane, Garrison and Summers (admittedly their versions of the story are rather different) fingers the CIA. (2) DiEugenio backs the second group. Briefly, he maintains that Kennedy was the victim of a plot hatched in the Western Hemisphere division of the CIA. […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Includes (Oct 2000) a newly declassified version of the US Signals Intelligence Directive 18, dated July 27 1993, which governs NSAs interception of communications involving US persons. CIA Activities in Chile http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/chile/index.html This CIA report acknowledges CIA involvement in Chile, and covers the 1960s and 1970s, the time of Allende and Pinochet, and attempts […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. In its search for disciplined criminal operators, the CIA originally drew upon narcotics traffickers, notably the Italian networks of Luciano in Marseilles (1948-50). Later the CIA drew on the French gangsters employed for penetration and assassination purposes by Colonel Pierre Fourcald of French intelligence (SDECE). (The CIA already […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] organizations, broke away from the WFTU and, in December 1949, formed the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU). The ICFTU received considerable financial assistance from the CIA; and, often through the Trade Secretariats associated with it, was also heavily infiltrated and thereby controlled by the Agency. Although not generally known at the time, […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. It is in this context that one must take seriously the contacts between Miami CIA and the French neo-fascist-OAS commando Albert Spaggiari, the Nice bank robber. According to a story in the London Observer, reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Spaggiari contacted the CIA “in the United States” […]