Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] the criminals and parafascists who exploited it – men like the French extortionist-mercenary Jean Kay, Stephane Zanettaci of the neo-fascist ‘Action Jeunesse’. (152) In the post-Vietnam, post- Watergate, post-oil embargo era of wars by proxy (such as Angola or Lebanon), in which the United States has willingly devolved its former responsibility to reactionary superclients […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] CIA agents and expelling them. Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
Dick Russell New York: Skyhorse, 2008, h/b, $24.95 Russell wrote The Man Who Knew Too Much, about the late Richard Nagell. A couple of weeks before the assassination of JFK, Nagell walked into a bank, fired two shots into the ceiling and waited for the police to come and arrest him. Years later he claimed … Read more
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] the United States – Madame Chennault for the KMT and Saigon, Kermit Roosevelt and Richard Allen for the Portuguese colonies, Nixon’s extra-national suppliers of untraceable funds through Watergate, and now the Chile and South Korea lobbies – as one single interlocking lobby for repressive violence abroad. As in the case of China in the […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] I was one of the very few (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat …… in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] other Mafia figures. This ‘confession’ is merely a factor in one of the puzzles: how many assassination plots were there? Before he died former CIA officer and Watergate ‘plumber’, E. Howard Hunt, seemed to be talking of there being several plots;(7) and there are fragments of apparent advance information – for example: Milteer, Cheramie, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] days of the Dulles brothers. And to a very depressing extent they were happy to do so. Parry wonders how the US media, which ran with the Watergate story and all its ramifications in the 1970s, ended up, less than a decade later, becoming accomplices to the murder of American nuns in Central America. […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] career (HUAC, the Checkers speech, debates with Kennedy) and then we get this: ‘In 1977 he was finally sunk when David Frost…. led him into saying on Watergate that ‘when the President does it, that means it is not illegal’….’ Oh, so it wasn’t until then that Nixon was finally sunk, and by this […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] (sic) who tried to alert public opinion and successive governments to the Soviet threat, for which I was pilloried by the media …in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President […]
