Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] a price. Britain won the Falklands War because of signals intelligence provided by the CIA from its listening posts in Pinochet’s Chile. As payback, US President Ronald Reagan expected the British to involve themselves in covert support to the Contra terrorists in Nicaragua. Part of Britain’s support for the Contras involved a private security […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Richard Helms for lying to Congress about CIA efforts to sabotage the Chilean elections. He was offered the job of CIA Director by both Presidents Ford and Reagan. He also sat on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board during the Ford and Reagan administrations. See Thomas, The Man to See pp. 340, 334, 472; […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] (Stanford, 2012); Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (University of California, 1998); and The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era (South End Press, 1987). Books cited Apostolidis, Paul and Juliet Williams, eds. Public Affairs: Politics in the Age of Sex Scandals. Durham: Duke University Press, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] left-leaning sites and Roberts is widely published on them. Roberts is a very striking figure. A distinguished academic economist to begin with, one time member of the Reagan cabinet, he worked at the free market Cato Institute and the Hoover Institution and wrote for the Wall Street Journal.1 Now he is chiefly known as […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in 1942, authorised the deportation and incarceration of US citizens of Japanese origin or descent, without due process. The last internment camp was closed in 1946. Ronald Reagan was said to have made a small fortune dealing in forced sales of real estate forfeited by interned Japanese. Until World War II, wars among whites […]