Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, notably Philip Agee and Victor Marchetti, revealed details of the Agency’s operations. […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] Labour government. Prime Minister Wilson knew this, which explains his (failed, disastrous) attempt to tackle them head-on. And it really wasn’t, as he has it, ‘the British Watergate’: that epithet must surely go to the anti-Labour operations of the 1970s, about which he says nothing. The 80 pages on Pincher and the D-notice Affair […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] controversially 87 George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed, (New York: Vintage Books, 1998), p. 463; and Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), pp. 184-185. 88 Russ Baker, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] in profits and if green-lefty stuff makes them money, their dream factories will make that, too. Just as there was in the 1970s, in the wake of Watergate and the subsequent revelations of FBI and CIA covert operations, there is a little bit of liberal dissidence in mainstream American movies, mostly at the low […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] enabled her to talk on the record based on that testimony. At that point an investigation by the major media at least as big as that of Watergate should have begun, with the deployment of the full panoply of state law offices and a special prosecutor. None of which happened. She did, however, give […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] as extensive as that of War and Peace. Here you’ll find new information about James Angleton, James McCord (one of the early Olson investigators and later a Watergate burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA […]