Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] Goodhart said that, ‘I did once hear that the services regard the Shiv Malik piece on 7/7 as essential reading inside the “security state”’ and added: ‘a Pentagon official once said the same.’ Goodhart went on to say: ‘if Hassan Butt has now been “exposed” as a liar and fantasist we were certainly not […]
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 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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the Watergate burglary because two of its planners had engaged in a previous felony break-in, ordered by the White House, to discredit Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers. They were members of a secret ‘Special Investigations Unit’, created at Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] ‘relentlessly turned the Bible into a manual of atomic-age combat’. He went through the Book of Revelations ‘mechanically transcribing every phrase and image into the vocabulary of Pentagon strategists’.18 It has been argued that Reagan, who claimed to be an admirer of The Late Great Planet Earth, was actually influenced by these prophecies while […]