Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] careers for that 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 […]

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The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] have foreseen in 1963 just how massive an operation Vietnam was to become within only three years. Even the early ‘hawks’ in the State Department and the Pentagon assumed that south-east Asia could be controlled relatively easily and cheaply. (15) However, a more sophisticated version of this argument can be made — and it […]

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An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] which he bashed Prouty, the Christic Institute and dozens of others. Stone’s sin was to portray a ‘Mr X’ that was based on Prouty’s experiences in the Pentagon shortly before the JFK assassination. Stone had first approached Prouty for script assistance in July 1990. Although Right Woos Left in its earlier drafts, as well […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] 020 7586 5892, Fax 020 7483 2531; or from Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9DX. Price: £5.00 Archives/Released Documents (collected by Jane Affleck) Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapeswww.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB48/ Documents relating to attempts by the New York Times and Washington Post to publish stories on the Pentagon Papers in June […]

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Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] it within the State Department. If Kennedy’s support for the apertura produced such opposition from the State Department, how much more hostile were the CIA and the Pentagon? In his Wilderness of Mirrors (Harper Row, New York 1980) David Martin notes that ‘to Angleton, who viewed the Socialist Party as nothing more than a […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] by David Cairns, an ‘official in the European Union department of the Foreign Office.’ A familiar ring? In November 1997 the JFK Assassination Records Review Board released Pentagon documents which, according to the Reuters’ report on this, show that ‘The Pentagon drew up plans to mount a bloody “terror campaign” in the United States…. […]

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Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] source. The results are there to be seen in your daily newspaper: story after story attributed to no one in particular: ‘Speaking on condition of anonymity, a Pentagon official said’, ‘White House sources denied’. So the news gets fuzzier – some would say it becomes more propagandistic – as sources disappear. Ambitious and calculating […]

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The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] example, or Colombia today; or Central America in the 1980s.) This happens because the American system as constructed since 1945 needs enemies. It needs ‘threats’. If the Pentagon and the corporations and politicians feeding off it are to continue to receive 50% of federal tax dollars there needs to be a plausible threat or […]

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Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] the chief Middle East arms sales adviser to Secretary of Defense Weinberger, from which post he was positioned to authorise the Israeli arms shipments out of the Pentagon. Secord had also headed planning for the sabotaged (see below) Desert One/Eagleclaw hostage rescue attempt in April 1980 (Secord’s testimony in the Irangate hearings; San Jose […]

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Spies, Lies, and the War On Terror

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] and create a platform from which to launch many of its covert operations. One quest-ion the authors do not address is the parallel between the way the Pentagon in the US sought to control intelligence, and thus create a policy-making platform for itself, and the way NATO has become an autonomous policy-making body, rather […]

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