Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Cinema Propaganda, politics and paranoia David Ray Carter 9 in Afghanistan (and inadvertently helped create Osama Bin Laden). Another is John Dean, President Nixon’s lawyer during the Watergate era. www.worldheadpress.com How things have changed! Not so long ago ‘conspiracy cinema’ would have meant Hollywood movies from the 1970s such as the Parallax View or […]
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 […]