Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] 1962 missile crisis and closedown of ‘Operation Mongoose’. But evidence of deep disagreement with Kennedy’s emerging detente with both Cuba and the USSR in the CIA and Pentagon can be found in the bizarre Life Magazine effort of June 7 1963 to prove that the missiles were still there.(4) Hersh’s reading of JFK’s November […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] has become synonymous with ‘mass suicide’? An ‘After Action Report’ of the Joint Chiefs of Staff helps to establish the chronology of the myth. According to the Pentagon, which took responsibility for transporting the dead back to the United States, the National Military Command Center (NMCC) was first notified of a disaster in Guyana […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] the Search and Recovery teams formed part of a Special Unit with the designation ‘SCRSWA’. This unit has not been identified, despite a telephone call to the Pentagon library. According to sources, there was a British involvement. This has yet to be identified and confirmed, but it is thought possible the bacteriological weapon may […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] example, or Colombia today; or Central America in the 1980s.) This happens because the American system as constructed since 1945 needs enemies. It needs ‘threats’. If the Pentagon and the corporations and politicians feeding off it are to continue to receive 50% of federal tax dollars there needs to be a plausible threat or […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] and create a platform from which to launch many of its covert operations. One quest-ion the authors do not address is the parallel between the way the Pentagon in the US sought to control intelligence, and thus create a policy-making platform for itself, and the way NATO has become an autonomous policy-making body, rather […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] March, 1983. Letter of 2 October 1997 from William A. Longwell, Acting Counsel, Marine Systems Command to author, concerning a request filed in 1994. See also ‘ Pentagon to set priorities in non-lethal Technologies’ in Inside the Air Force: an exclusive weekly report on Air Force programs, procurement and policy-making, Vol. 5 no. 15, […]