Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] It’s not that the books are valueless: Jeffreys-Jones has an interesting chapter on the politics around the Church Committee inquiry into the CIA in the wake of Watergate; and Craddock gives the reader a nice guided tour through the Whitehall view of the Cold War and a number of other incidents which involved the […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] and security services, with CIA and BOSS, to bring down Wilson, Thorpe and Heath; the USA: the CIA’s Operation Chaos, the FBI’s Cointelpro programme and, of course, Watergate; Australia: the loans scandal and other destabilisation of Gough Whitlam by the CIA and SIS West Germany: the destabilisation of Willi Brandt because of his overture […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and in the normal run of events, would have been a sensation. Unfortunately it appeared during the Watergate affair and got buried by it. A flavour of Prouty’s life and writing can be found at his Web site http://www.prouty.org/ William Cooper, author Behold a […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] At the Labour CRISIS fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference this year Ken Livingstone’s talk was entirely about the Wilson government and the destabilisation campaign. Made Watergate look like taking candy from a child, I think was the expression. Ken for leader. American Congress for Irish Freedom 326 West 48th Street. New York. […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] created by the military rather than inborn. The parallels to Valentine’s Ellsberg piece struck me as uncanny. There never was a solid explanation as to why the Watergate burglars went after his shrink’s files. Or why Hunt claimed the Ellsberg file was never covertly photographed, when apparently it was. I suspect those photos went […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] against Goulart. Branco was a friend of 20 years’ standing. 1972-76 While still in the army Walters was deputy director of CIA and helped The Service through Watergate and the Pinochet coup against Allende in Chile. He was involved in the assassination of Allende’s former defence minister, Orlando Letelier. 1976-81 Employed apparently in the […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Deep State’, also in this issue of Lobster, I discussed the importance of political blackmail as a force in America’s deep politics from the late 1950s to Watergate. This article, which also addresses Watergate, focuses on the politics of sexual blackmail and sex scandals over many decades. In 2016, American voters elected as their […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] is ‘provoking’ Russia? Why is it so hard for some on the left to be opposed to the American empire and opposed to Russia’s expansion by invasion? Watergate at 50 A ‘two-day online conference’ marking the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in took place over 9 and 10 June.35 One of the keynote speakers […]
[PDF file]: […] recorded in the White House of Richard Nixon’s conversations with CIA Director of the time, Richard Helms. N.B. that this recording was made eight months before the Watergate break-ins. “What I want, what I want, Dick,” he rasped, “regarding any 6 or 7 4 understanding, regarding any information, I do not want any information […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] commitment to modernisation, transparency and normalization.’ ‘Normalization’? What next? Can ‘woke’ Masons be far away? Meanwhile, back on Dealey Plaza Researchers into the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate affair are currently involved in an exchange of ideas on-line,17 looking into connections between the two events. John Simkin – who initiated the whole thing – […]