Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] Monthly Review, which he has co-edited since its foundation, Sweezy spoke a little about his wartime work for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor of the CIA). Sweezy revealed that he worked from 1942-45 in London, then Paris, then Germany, on ‘research and analysis’, evaluating intelligence and British policy. He said – and […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] long and largely sympathetic feature. (Donald MacIntyre got very worked up about accusations that Tony Crosland could stoop to dirty politics and may well have been a CIA ‘agent of influence’.) In response to the Ian McIntyre review I wrote a letter which included this. ‘I would have taken Mr McIntyre’s analysis more seriously […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] near the front line of the anti-communist battle of the cold war.’ () Uniquely useless The article presents Radek Sikorski, the New Atlantic Initiative, Encounter and the CIA, William Kristol, the Weekly Standard, Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Richard and Daniel Pipes and their Middle East Forum, Richard Perle, and even Team B, in a manner […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] whatever’ and Ruby corrected him by stating that it was the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. The Free Cuba Movement was an anti-Castro movement funded by the CIA. If we had no other evidence than this, that within 24 hours of the assassination Ruby knew who Oswald was and, moreover, knew that he was […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Aaronovitch didn’t refer explicitly to the most obvious thing about Laughland: he is anti-American; and anti-globalisation. But not from the left. His very interesting article on the CIA (and wider American) role in the politics of the Soviet bloc countries post 1991, ‘The Technique of a coup d’etat’, ends with this sentence: ‘But, after […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] * Sources COVERT ACTION, the journal set up by Philip Agee and friends in the late 1970s to monitor and, if possible, counter the activities of the CIA and all the other covert arms of the post-war American Empire, is still ploughing along. It used to be distributed in this country but we haven’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] like one. Paul Robeson’s son alleged – without evidence as far as I could see – that his father had been giving a psychedelic drug by the CIA. More significant, in my view, was the kicker to the story that, having displayed symptoms of depression, Robeson was given 54 electroshock ‘treatments’ in Britain. (Sunday […]
