The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which he puts bits and pieces of film and research. Well worth a look.19 * Richard Cummings, who wrote in Lobster about The Paris Review and the CIA, now has a blog.20 His essay there on the actions of the Republicans in America, ‘The Prosperity of Treason’, concludes thus: ‘All of these actions by […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] time of this article appearing he had not responded. I have therefore been unable to discuss Mr Rocco-Rusk’s claims with him, in particular his relationship with the CIA, with whom he claims to have served (for an unspecified period) as a political analyst.1 2 Given the old adage that ‘One does not quit the […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Well, how did we get here? Robin Ramsay Introduction T hat I do this was suggested by Dan Hind and he made a number of useful comments on this text, some additions to it and suggested the title. Essentially I took parts of my 1999 Prawn Cocktail Party, pruned them and topped […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] Frank Kitson (who died recently) and Kincora. 8 4 it.9 But Chauncey Holt offered another explanation. Some months before the assassination, his unit was tasked by the CIA to produce some smooth bore rifles which would take a cartridge already fired through the MannlicherCarcano. Such a smooth bore round would have little power. The […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] memoirs. Although unsentimental, The Hotel Tacloban is saturated with unstated but real empathy for the person whose story is recorded. This empathy was so powerful that former CIA director William Colby, who had read the book, hoped Valentine Jr. would bring that empathy to his book about the soldiers in Phoenix, and granted him […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in early 2016. He was charged with removing a propaganda poster while on a guided tour visit to the country. He ‘confessed’ to having both Christian and CIA links (the Christian connection was not that convincing considering he was Jewish!) and was treated with such brutality that he was in a vegetative state when […]

Reel Power: Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy by Matthew Alford

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid London: Profile Books, 2020, 513 pp, £10.99 Colin Challen The dissemination of disinformation is as old as the hills, and now, thanks to the Internet, its transformation from the analogue age to the digital has given it what Rid explains as a post-modernist […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] was low on powder – perhaps a mistake in reloading. But Chauncey Holt offered another explanation. Some months before the assassination, his unit was tasked by the CIA to produce some smooth bore rifles which would take a cartridge already fired through the MannlicherCarcano. Such a smooth bore round would have little power. The […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Defense Secretary McNamara apparently rejected the plan. The Northwoods documents can be seen at . It is just possible that the rejection of Northwoods led to the CIA plan to stage a phoney assassination attempt on JFK, which has been described by fringe participant, the late Chauncey Holt in his memoir. I reviewed this […]

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