Morningside Mata Haris: How MI6 deceived Scotland’s great and good

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] thousands of pro-Nazi soldiers and war criminals from Eastern Europe, groups which eventually were formed into the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, funded by MI6 and then the CIA. Why did the British state import these people? First, they were regarded as potential sources of information and agents in the anti-Soviet struggle which had been […]

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After Watergate: the Chilean-Cuban Exile Alliance

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] Vatican monasteries of Bishop Hudal in 1947, became a leading representative of the Skorzeny network in Chile. (108) In late 1974, junta Ambassador Julio Duran, a long-time CIA contact and organiser of Patria Y Libertad, appeared at a Miami Cuban rally organised by Sepulveda’s contact Ramiro de la Fe Perez. (109) One year later […]

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Contemporary British History 1931-61: politics and the limits of policy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] SIS to play a part in the anti-Soviet operations of the early years of Cold War 1 — the small-scale British version of the conversion of the CIA from an intelligence agency into a covert operations adjunct to US foreign policy. (Aldrich is one of the handfuls of British academics who are trying to […]

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Popular Alienation

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] which ought to be a spoof but probably isn’t; an interview with a man called Lars Hansson which covers the actor Steven Seagal’s odd connections, an alleged CIA assassin who claims to have killed 117 people for the US government between 1943 and 1990, and Gordon Novel and John Lear; a piece called ‘Thieves […]

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French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] DGSE had also come in for criticism for low productivity in intelligence-gathering. Its information on the Soviet Union or China is scanty and basic in comparison with CIA or MI6 material, and a report indicating a Libyan withdrawal from Chad in 1984 proved embarrassing when it became apparent the following year that the Libyans […]

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Freeing the World to Death: essays on the American empire

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] which Hitchens seems to have flunked), letters to editors, and the texts of some of his e-mail Anti-Empire Reports.() If you know his previous work on the CIA and American imperialism ()you know what to expect. If you don’t know Blum, you should; and this is as good – and as entertaining – a […]

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Miscellany

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] killed a Greek publisher. ‘November 17’ is said to have left a note at the scene of the murder “arguing that the publisher had been helping the CIA to create a climate of uncertainty in Greece.” The World Anti-Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) has had a lot of attention recently. Less attention […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] September 2006, p.704. See also the Diana’s Inquest website: . Anon., ‘From JFK “plot” to Diana’, The New York Post, 14 July 2006; Anon., ‘Princess Di, the CIA and deadly neckties’, TMZ.com, 14 July 2006 Brighton: Pen Press Publishers, 2006. (A self publishing organisation. ) Lord Hutton, ‘The media reaction to the Hutton Report’, […]

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The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] deeply improbable. In the attempt to nail the IPS, Crozier runs a load of bullshit at the reader. He recycles the old canard that Richard Welch, the CIA station chief in Athens, was murdered as a result of being identified in CounterSpy. He even describes John Kennedy as being killed by a member of […]

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Vatican Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] a report claiming that the previous Pope had been poisoned. Pfaff comments that the Soviet analysis shows “an astonishing fear of American power, of the effectiveness of CIA conspiracies”. Astonishing, and, in Pfaff’s view, quite absurd of course. On Brzezinski’s role in all this I have seen nothing, and on the machinations behind the […]

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