Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] all went to Princeton. George Rentchler was in my class there and was a friend. James Rentchler worked in the White House for both Presidents Carter and Reagan in the National Security Council on European affairs and served as Ambassador to both Guinea and Malta. His flat, as Gallagher described it, was filled with […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] $20 billion dollars in losses…’ ‘Well, there was no ‘oil shortage’ ….the whole scam was intended to make sure Carter was a one-term president. As soon as Reagan came in office, all of a sudden the CIA miraculously reversed their dramatic doomsday predictions that oil was running out and the world was awash in […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] add this: Stich has collected together many of the conspiracy theories, bits of research and allegations on the U.S. political and intelligence fringe since the arrival Ronald Reagan. Some of these fragments are more convincing than others; all are interesting. A better starting place for the study of the darker side of recent U.S. […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] time a group of Republican businessmen in California sought a viable candidate, they chose someone you would buy a used car from, the B list actor Ronald Reagan. The outpouring of uncritical praise following his recent death merely confirmed the triumph of his image over reality. In the last Presidential election, Al Gore was […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] from two other books of his: Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America;(2) and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era.(3) Scott effectively had the story documented three years before the recent ‘revelations’ by a San José newspaper that clients of the CIA had been allowed […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)
If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make heavy […]