Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to commit a terrorist atrocity and blame it on Cuba, to provide the pretext for another invasion of the island.1 Subsequently, that short section has […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] who would have thought that James Watson, who ‘had earlier won fame for his role in discovering the double-helix structure of DNA’, once served ‘on a secret Pentagon CBW advisory panel’. Hersh’s discussion of My Lai – he rightly calls it a ‘National Disgrace’ – is essential reading, although it was merely the tip […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[PDF file]: […] and, to no-one’s surprise, came up with a bigger ‘threat’, and thus the support for the increased expenditure on U.S. armaments sought by the neo-conservatives and the Pentagon and its satellite arms corporations.8 If the U.S. arms industry needed a bomber gap, a missile gap, or a psi gap, if the government needed a […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, was in the Scottish capital from 1968 until his retirement from the foreign service in 1971. 2 His younger son, Dean Godson, a former US Pentagon official and now a Tory peer, is director of the ‘think-tank’ Policy Exchange. 3 Discussed in Tom Easton, ‘Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent’ in Lobster 47. 3 […]