[…] to handle those uncouth Yanks, to hold their hands and cool their tempers. For example: There was Penkofsky, who not only saved the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but had been rebuffed by the Yanks; and then there was Gordiefsky on hand to whisper in Mrs Thatcher’s ear that Gorbachev was on the […]
In Lobster 40 I wrote about a long-term operation by elements within the US military and intelligence services to disinform those interested in UFOs. More information on this has subsequently come to light. The MAJESTIC mystery solved? The real author of this section is Martin Cannon: I have just rewritten his e-mail to me. The … Read more
[…] it.(15) A considerable chunk of the 9/11 ‘skeptics’ do not believe that a passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon: they think it was a jet fighter, a missile or a drone. From their position, this exhibition must be a fraud. But if it is a fraud, part of the wider 9/11 fraud, that is […]
[…] started his Presidency as a cold war liberal whose outlook resembled that of Alden Pyle in The Quiet American, the Bay of Pigs humiliation and the Cuban Missile Crisis put him on a sharp learning curve. At the end of his life he was talking of the need to build a world ‘safe for […]
[…] ‘have organised a “genuine” right-wing bombing at Bologna station in order to reinforce the idea that the Itavia disaster was caused by a bomb rather than a missile, and thus strengthen the alibi of whichever NATO air force had been responsible for the disaster’ (p. 170). Evidence since his book was published has tended […]
From David Guyatt: David Hambling’s comments in Lobster 39 (Feedback) underscore the extreme difficulties involved in firstly accessing, then corroborating and, finally, reporting stories that are as obviously sensitive as Operation Black Cat and Operation Black Dog. It is easy to raise what appear to be realistic technical objections, but the Black Dog story consumed … Read more
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. … Read more
[…] in September 1963 which seemed designed to present Oswald as a potential defector to Cuba. My own theory on the assassination is as follows. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy brothers had angered the anti-Castro crusaders in the intelligence community by banning covert activity against Cuba from American soil. The solution to this […]
Ken Silverstein Verso, London (£19.00) and New York ($25.00), 2000 Ken Silverstein is co-editor of CounterPunch, a very good radical – left radical – newsletter in Washington (http://www. counterpunch.org/) This book is a group of essays centred round a central theme rather than an attempt to encompass the whole area of the relationship between the … Read more
[…] revealing insights into the twists and turns of strategy and diplomacy within the western alliance. Examples are his articles on the 1962 cancellation of the US Skybolt missile which was supposed to become the centrepiece of the UK nuclear deterrent, or In the Red’s analysis of sterling’s problems, or Anatomy of Error (1969), which […]
