Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
Thanks to Terry Hanstock for contributions. Contributions comments are always welcome. E-mail me on 101521.3515 @compuserve.com Electronic Privacy and Encryption Privacy and Human Rights http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ New GILC/EPIC/PI report details the state of privacy in 50 countries. Includes Threats to Privacy; The Right to Privacy; Technologies of Privacy Invasion. The report was written by Privacy International; … Read more
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] this is not a subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of a lot) […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
The channels for US covert military aid to the Afghan mojahedin have been thrown into disarray by the death on August 17 [1988] of President Zia ul-Haq of Pakistan in an aircrash unexplained as we went to press. His death came at a particularly sensitive moment as the Soviet occupation forces prepared to withdraw and … Read more
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] might be lies in the strong possibility that the extra money being defrauded from Medicare was being used by Recarey to fund medical aid for the Nicaraguan Contras. Whilst a Congressional Intelligence Committee found no evidence to support this theory, former CIA operative Jose Basulto told the Wall Street Journal in 1987 that he […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Peter Dale Scott and Jonathan Marshall University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, $15.95 pb ISBN 0-520-21449-8 This is a revised and updated version of this book which was first published in 1991 (and was reviewed in Lobster 24). Since that first edition we have had the great furore over the 1996 stories published in … Read more
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
You might remember the red sofas, leather Chesterfields recovered in quieter fabric. You might remember that the talking didn’t end at any specific time, unique in an era when all television channels closed down at night. You might remember Oliver Reed getting drunk, although he was hardly the only disruptive guest. Reading Norman Baker’s book … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] was the limit respected, but that was because the Saigon regime fell before the limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted by Oliver North in the Reagan White House with Pentagon and CIA support, provoking the Iran-Contra confrontation. Indonesia’s […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] in the last twenty years are spurious. Their account of the CIA is wilfully inadequate, even for a three page summary. They describe the funding of the Contras without mentioning drugs, even when the CIA itself has admitted getting permission from the US Attorney General to ignore cocaine dealing in return for donations to […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] terror and ‘terror’ George Schultz actually says (p19): “it is not hard to tell … who are the terrorists and who are the freedom fighter …. the Contras in Nicaragua do not blow up school buses or hold mass executions of civilians.” This is preposterous, of course. I can’t be bothered doing it, but […]
