Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] the world’s most powerful military and intelligence forces. I had not previously grasped how much the Kennedys and their staffs talked about the possibility of a military coup being run against them and how much of the time the Kennedys used back channels to circumvent bureaucracies they didn’t trust. Talbot answers the question, Why […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] either geographic or operative (spying, say) became crucial battlegrounds. He lets his description of events point their own moral: from the failed Baltic operations, through the Iranian coup, into the hi-jacking of European culture – ‘the Battle for Picasso’s Mind’ – and its recycling as a psy-ops project by the Congress for Cultural Freedom. […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] were far too many internal contradictions in all this. In public, driven by media outrage, the embarrassed West condemned the manoeuvre. In private, Western officials opposed the coup as tactically inept, but probably were not unhappy to see Musharraf silence the second front created by the uppity lawyers getting in the way of the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] to have been neglected by his recent biographers. After 1921 he became a freelance operator whilst still trying to persuade people that he could engineer a counter coup in the Soviet Union. Hearing about an alleged anti-Bolshevik group, ‘the Trust’, that was awaiting assistance from the West he crossed into the Soviet Union in […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] close friend (and office manager) Michael Salt from all positions within the NF, proposed by Andrew Brons as Chair and seconded by Anderson as Deputy Chair. This coup de grace took only ten minutes, and (almost uniquely) reduced Webster to speechlessness. The event was a shock from which Webster never really recovered, and, despite […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] been ‘naive’ in reassuring President Sukarno of Indonesia in 1963 that Guy Pauker, formerly of RAND, was not CIA. (Two years later Pauker was involved in the coup which overthrew Sukarno. On this see Peter Dale Scott’s essay in Lobster 20) But this does not lead him to examine the evidence of US involvement […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] WACL supporter, ex-DDCIA, Ray Cline accompanied Manila CIA station chief and the CIA’s General Sweitzer on a visit to messers Enrile and Ramos, just before the abortive coup against Mrs Aquino’s government. One need not jump to conclusions: the Americans may have been trying to call the coup off. Either way, the presence of […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] of the Judeo-Masonic- Anglophile/Royalist Cabal in its confict with the Vatican’…..’ Or this from a letter to me recently: ‘the hypothesis that the Vatican/SMOM crowd ran a coup in Britain via pro American elements of British intelligence against the Judeo-Masonic forces best represented by the Queen and, in the City, Lord Rothschild.’ Or… The […]