Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] content is mostly Anglo-American, especially after WW2. It is done chronologically, so you get odd sequences of subjects: Gehlen, Roswell, Operation Paperclip, the murder of Gandhi; and Watergate, Littlejohn, Kincora, Allende; and AIDS conspiracy, Iran-Contra conspiracy, Hilda Murrel, Get Scargill, assassination of Mrs Ghandi. And so on. I haven’t read the whole book but […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] it is better not to know. There are too many things that embarrass Americans in that report. You see, this country went through a bad shock with Watergate. But even then, all they were asked to believe was that their president had been a bad person. In this new situation they are asked much […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] Prouty’s general claims is hard to resist. He knows at first hand whereof he speaks; and some of his thesis has indeed been confirmed in the post- Watergate revelations of CIA links with the media, the Agency’s use of journalists, and the existence of ‘detailees’ – CIA agents working within the domestic US government.(2) […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] 40 years Italy’s political system has been subverted by US-funded parapolitics, demonstrating the universal application of the late Ralph J. Gleason’s First Law of American Politics After Watergate: no matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you could possibly imagine. In Italy’s case, not only was it worse, it […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] evil geniuses are as real as 9-11 and the Holocaust. So, too, are the bumbling cabals of politicians and intelligence operatives bent upon adventures such as Iran-Contra, Watergate and the Bay of Pigs. Would Doctor Moore hold that the Nuremberg Trials were an exercise in conspiracism? Of course not. Would she deny that Hamas, […]
Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] to influence political decisions and policies in the countries within which it operates. Thus, for example, Moon’s attempts to support Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate crisis, raise money for a variety of anti-communist causes, and influence Congressional votes through lobbying are reasonably well known; (7) and due to the extraordinary efforts […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] campaign funds or was politically and financially indebted to the people who ran Vegas. Paul Laxalt, one of only two republican Senate gains in the year after Watergate, had been a long-time defender of casino interests in the state. He was the first to form a Citizens for Reagan Committee, later becoming one of […]
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 […]
