House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] h/b   Juan Bosch was the president of the Dominican Republic from 1963-65. He tried to implement land reforms and was removed from office by a military coup which was then supported by the deployment of 20,000 US troops. In 1967 he published a little book called Pentagonism: a substitute for imperialism (New York: […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] and the growth of the PR industry. And these were done straight. The programme missed a lot of tricks. There was much discussion of the talk of coup plotting in the mid 1970s yet it didn’t mention – or, better, show – the discussions about a coup carried in The Times. It talked about […]

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Operation Brogue

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the Irish […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] some of their ultimately irrational views may have seemed.(12) Knight and Livingstone were operating during a time when the Allende government had been overthrown in a CIA-backed coup and the Salazar regime in Portugal had collapsed overnight in 1974, to give but two examples of dramatic change during those years. Something like this happening […]

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Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] “I have absolutely no doubt that someone or something got to them before we did“‘ (emphasis added). The amazing Mr Logan From: Gordon Logan Subject: The Moscow Coup and MI6’s Murders ‘I am sending the text of a letter that I sent to the British Home Office a few months ago. I have been […]

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SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Before he could speak, I opened fire and emptied a magazine into them without anyone realising what I was doing. I changed magazines and gave each the coup de grace. I wanted no survivors to talk of white assassins.’ (p. 122) The following year, with Hind, he assassinated the ZANU leader, Herbert Chitepo and […]

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PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] touch them. “Collaboration with the CIA went beyond certain French intelligence units to the highest circles, to the men closest to de Gaulle”. (Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup  (Montreal 1980) p. 67).This included Pompidou, who was blasted verbally by de Gaulle but who could do little more than shout. One of those arrested was […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS). ‘The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initialing and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West’s control over Iranian oil…The operation was the blueprint for a succession of […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup?’ As I make abundantly clear in my book (e.g. pp. 225-26, citing the 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 38, 326, and Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies, p. […]

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Kiss me on the apocalypse!

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] parts of Africa, it does not follow that Goldsmith, Birley, Rowland and others gave up their strategic and economic interests on the continent. Note that the attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea in 2004 was allegedly funded by Ely Calil, a one time associate of Sir James Goldsmith and Mark Birley, and according to its […]

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