Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] found a number of CIA documents on the 140 MKULTRA sub-projects with references to radiation. In sub-project 35, for example, the CIA secretly provided $375,000 for a new wing at Georgetown University Hospital in 1950s, to be used in chemical and biological programs. Dr. Charles F. Geschickter, a Georgetown doctor, provided cover for the […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] out.'() Loyal till the end, though, were the emerging circle of neo-cons who, with some justification regarded, the unqualified 1967 Israeli victory as the dawn of a new era in US/Israel relations. () In view of what later transpires, it is worth considering Bobby Kennedy’s own foreign policy platform. By now totally opposed to […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Sherman Oaks (California): Citizens for the Truth about the Kennedy Assassination, 1995. xii + 58 pps. Notes, bibliography, index. A fine bit of research with stacks of new information about Shaw. This guy, as many of us have suspected, was no Joe Sixpack who just happened to wander in ‘off the street’ and find […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] Francisco Chronicle). As of April 13, 1987, the Washington Post reported that both the House and Senate Committees investigating Irangate and Special Investigator Lawrence Walsh have requested new documents and evidence dating back to the beginning of Reagan’s first presidential term – that is, to the very day that Richard Allen has reported Reagan […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] In their report AIR stressed the available possibilities of developments, including lasers, electromagnetic frequencies and sound. These techniques are currently under serious development, some under the so-called new concept of non-lethal weapons.(4) Dr. J. G. Pratt, one of the first western researchers, who visited the Soviet Union after the publication of Vasiliev’s work,(5) described […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] world’s biggest heroin dealer, Khun Sa, and corrupt Pakistani officials, drug profiteers and the CIA.(7) By 1986, when BCCI financed the HAWK missile deal, US authorities k new the bank to be a far-flung criminal enterprise. Acting CIA director Richard Kerr told Congress that his agency was well aware by the early 1980s that […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone. (1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to Citizen Ken, an account of Livingstone’s life and exploits published in 1984 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] the easiest question: what do George Robertson, Chris Smith and Marjorie ‘Mo’ Mowlam have in common? They are, of course, all strong Tony Blair supporters in the new Labour Cabinet. And what about Peter Mandelson and Elizabeth Symons? Not yet quite Cabinet members, but both are key figures in the ‘modernising project’ in Blair’s […]