Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] equate to about 100-200 such bodies in the 50s and 60s. 15 8 were Allen Dulles, William Donovan and Walter Bedell Smith, all later prominent in the CIA. They wanted to establish a United States of Europe, for much the same reasons that Amery had advocated in 1931: it would be less work for […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: ‘They….cannot imagine the rest of the world does not want […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] actions, he said, were also on behalf of the Z Society, a college group at the University of Virginia that Pyongyang alleges is a front for the CIA.’ 3 There appear to be at least sixteen fraternities/sororities at the University of Virginia, and some of them do have odd histories.4 It should be noted […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] 12). And, as we shall see, he returns to Orwell on a number of occasions. Now this hijacking of Orwell by the Right is not new. The CIA famously funded the 1954 Halas and Batchelor cartoon film of Animal Farm and the John Birch Society proudly had 1984 included as part of the phone […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on the island. The Soviets would be blamed, the populace would rise up, […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] characters and events with no idea of which is which. For instance: Liggett’s youthful participation in David Ferrie’s Civil Air Patrol outfit and his recruitment by the CIA therefrom. This is plainly of key importance to understanding Liggett’s life but I have no idea whether it’s real or pretend. Mr Fleming’s characters are all […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] (it’s not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was ‘sounded out’ by a CIA officer as Pitzer’s assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn’t go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] rest of these stories and lots of its funding may simply have been stolen. En route the authors wander into all manner of interesting byways, including the CIA trials in the early 1950s and the Frank Olsen case; and David Kelly and other dead microbiologists. (Just google ‘dead microbiologists’ to get a flavour.) This […]