[…] copy the moves which were made when MI5’s chief target was so-called subversives. It was not just your actual subversives who were monitored, but people who k new or associated with, and might support or be influenced by subversives. Organisations had to be be ‘checked out’ to make sure they didn’t contain subversives or […]
[…] the size of nos. 9, 10, 13: bigger issues, such as 11, 12, 14, are counted as doubles and deducted from subscriptions accordingly. Costs UK (£4.00); US/Canada/Australia/ New Zealand £7.00 Europe £6.00 These prices include postal charges, airmail on on-UK. Non-UK subscribers please note: from this issue onwards we will accept only International Money […]
[…] status and wealth. Mostly using interviews with the participants of the time, Cahn’s book describes, in clear, straightforward prose, how groups fronting those two lobbies created a new Soviet ‘threat’ in 1976/7. Spending on the military-industrial-intelligence complex is affected by the definition of the ‘threat’ facing America: low threat, lower spending; high threat, higher […]
[…] The service bureau also converted the files from Amstrad PCW format to MS Word 4.0 Example of Amstrad PCW Formated file: Notes# +/ 1. The ” New Right’ and those around Keith Joseph and Thatcher worked hard to portray the Lobster issues 26 onwards were produced in Macintosh Claris Works, and required converting […]
William F. Pepper Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995, but distributed in the UK by WWM at £21.00 Tony Frewin mentioned this book in his survey of the JFK and related literature in Lobster 31. It deserves more than that. William Pepper is an American lawyer with an office in London as well as […]
[…] to carry out his research wherever it may lead him, and condemns the use of intimidation and guilt by association to silence discussion.’. On October 15 the New Statesman and Society published a piece by its deputy editor, Paul Anderson, which surveyed the dispute with Searchlight and took O’Hara’s side. Gerry Gable replied in […]
Rob Evans House of Stratus, London, 2000 This is a long (over 400 pages with notes and appendices), minutely detailed account of experiments at Porton Down from the First World War onwards. The story is pretty much what you would expect: thousands of British squaddies were persuaded to volunteer for the experiments, most apparently […]
[…] cocaine in Panama between December 11, 1975 and April 1 1976……. Colby told me that profits from the pre-positioned cocaine would be laundered by Al Carone, the New York Mafia and Robert Vesco…..’ Notice Al Carone in the last sentence. He figures elsewhere in the Dowbenko piece, as a ‘CIA operative’ who makes the […]
Volume 20 of Research in Political Economy, edited by Paul Zarembka, titled ‘Confronting 9-11, Ideologies of Race, and Eminent Economists,’ (JAI/Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, New York, Oxford, 2002) contains important essays on the current US administration’s foreign policy by Peter Dale Scott and David MacGregor. The abstract to Scott’s essay is : ‘The United States […]
[…] (1948-50). Later the CIA drew on the French gangsters employed for penetration and assassination purposes by Colonel Pierre Fourcald of French intelligence (SDECE). (The CIA already k new Colonel Fourcald from its collaboration with his Service Action Indochine – a special warfare operation financed by the sale of opium to the world-wide Corsican networks.) […]
