Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] engineered by the MOD.” Shades of Robert Kennedy! In 1963, immediately after his brother’s assassination, Robert Kennedy is said to have asked the then head of the CIA, John McCone, if the agency had done the dirty deed; and to have “asked the question in such a way that he couldn’t lie to me.” […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] Branch to the construction of the new MI6 headquarters over a century later. This is allied to a perception that covert forces, including in the 1970s the CIA, have generally worked to protect the interests of property and capital when these have been (or are imagined to have been) under threat from the Left. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] to be accepted. Talbot conveys better than any other account I have read the conflict between JFK and those bits of the state, the Pentagon and the CIA, chiefly, which had serious vested interests in the Cold War. The centrepiece of Talbot’s account of this conflict with the US military, is Cuba. For the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Rice, the legal counsel in charge of the 9/11 civil suit, through a private sector intermediary.(6) This was not an official request for information by the FBI, CIA or US Treasury, but was to benefit a private prosecution on foreign soil with no direct Spanish content.(7) The Times meanwhile reported that Spanish ships were […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Central Bank, will not be around until the end of the week…..’ Defence against which missiles? There is one section of the John Diamond book on the CIA, reviewed below, which deserves picking out. Diamond points out that the missile defence system which the US is deploying, apparently against ‘rogue states’, is not to […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] has been taken up by the Asso ciation of National Security Alumni. In a briefing they issued on August 19, 1992, after summarising the known DoD and CIA interest in this field, they commented on ‘The increasing number of persons contacting us for assistance in ending what they believe to be electronic harassment by […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] the post from Professor John Vincent, a copy of the September issue of East-West Digest. This had the reputation in left-wing circles of being funded by the CIA. Vincent appended a note saying, ‘I thought this would interest you’ to an unsigned article, ‘Strategy of Destruction: the ILP Re-Assessed’ – By a Special Correspondent’, […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] incident) and they all told me that the Israeli attack was deliberate, not an accident: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer CIA Director Richard Helms NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella. I am no authority on conspiracy theories, but there seem to be three possibilities here. A) Rusk, Moorer, […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] much to propound and legitimise the conspiracy theories of the right-wing of the US foreign policy world in the 1980s. She has frequently been alleged to be CIA but no evidence has surfaced yet. Kennedy Lindsay John Kennedy Lindsay died suddenly on 8 May 1997 at his home near Templepatrick outside Belfast. He was […]