A Letter from Kenn Thomas

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] recently came across these remarks from 1975 by Charlene Mitchell, speaking to a group called National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression: ‘It is suggested that since Watergate we need no longer have fear. Congress is on the alert and will protect us…The fact of the matter of course is that the dossiers continue […]

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] offers none – he has confused John Major with his father, who did work in a circus for a time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti-Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would […]

Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] website &lt http://www.fair.org/fair &gt for more about major media and the CIA-cocaine story. Walter Pincus, ‘How I Traveled Abroad On CIA Subsidy,’ San Jose Mercury, 18 February 1967, p. 14. Kathryn S. Olmsted, Challenging the Secret Government: The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis

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) […]

From Parapolitics to Deep Politics: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] those publicly sanctioned by law and society. In popular terms, collusive secrecy and law-breaking are part of how the deep political system works.'(6) Nobody who has witnessed Watergate, Irangate, Kincora, the Rainbow Warrior murders, Stalker, Colin Wallace, or any of the other significant exposes of the secret state activities of the past 25 years […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] establishment of “a public-private mechanism” to fund overseas activities openly.’ The NED was devised to eliminate the stigma associated with CIA covert activities in the wake of Watergate and the Church Committee. According to William Blum it was a masterpiece ‘of politics, of public relations, and of cynicism’; in effect, enabling the CIA to […]

Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] spies; trying to fire Angleton, as might have been expected, but unexpectedly failing when Angleton secured the support of Schlesinger himself. In early May 1973, after the Watergate resignations of Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean, Colby was told that Nixon wanted him to be the next DCI. And it was at just this time that […]

Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] value of chronology in spades. I haven’t seen Sproesser’s other volumes (1963, including minute-by-minute logs of 22, 23 and 24 November, the Warren Commission, MLK and RFK, Watergate, etc), but if they are anything like this they are must-haves. For further details write Louis Sproesser at 1415 Woodgate Circle, Enfield, CT 06082, USA. TURNER, […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] attempt to fit UK events into the framework provided by Gemstone. On the first page we get Miller, Judah Binstock, Lansky, Luciano, Nixon, Onassis, Danite Mormons (?), Watergate, Hughes, Kennedy, CIA JFK, the Warren Commission……It’s a farrago in which one or two suggestive facts are buried under a torrent of nonsensical assertions. For Gemstone […]

The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] creation of a ‘totalitarian bureaucracy’. Buckley had been recruited to the CIA out of Yale. His case officer at the Agency was E. Howard Hunt, novelist and Watergate conspirator. Buckley co-founded The National Review with former Trotskyite, James Burnham, who also worked for the CIA. Buckley got his wish for a bureaucratic dictatorship when […]

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