Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the war had been won. The volume also includes interesting chapters on Vatican intelligence and the Holocaust, on the Trawniki Training Camp, on Adolf Eichmann and on agent networks in Istanbul. The other book, US Intelligence and the Nazis, is also of considerable interest. It consists of essays written, in the main, by Richard […]

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] in Suva. Initially the office was operated by Valentine Suazo, with well known CIA connections, an expert in subverting Latin American trade unionists, and exposed by ex-CIA agent Philip Agee. The Suva office was funded by NED “to act as a liaison on publications, education and membership services for a number of unions” (HR […]

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

ELF: from Mind Control to Mind Wars Over the past six months I have been given a large (and still growing) pile of documents about extremely low frequency electromagnetic radiation, or ELF for short. This is not really Lobster territory, nor am I scientifically equipped to synthesise this material. However, this subject seems to me … Read more

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] come and go, with much less prominence, and very much less risk of accidents on take-off and landing. We are asked to accept that a VX nerve agent was used, with a C-130 Hercules simultaneously flying out of Dhahran to obliterate any traces of nerve agent with two five ton fuel-air explosive devices. Why […]

Echelon

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] key words. They claim that ECHELON automatically analyses most e-mail messaging for ‘precursor’ data which assists intelligence agencies to determine targets. According to former Canadian Security Establishment agent Mike Frost, a voice recognition system called Oratory has been used for some years to intercept diplomatic calls. The report recommends a variety of measures for […]

Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, and, The Haunted Wood

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America – the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the Republican right in the US, … Read more

George Korkala’s address book

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest … Read more

Economic Fundamentalism: a Laboratory Experiment

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Jane Kelsey, Pluto Press, London 1996, £14.99 Kelsey describes how a handful of bureaucrats in the New Zealand state, backed by some of the big New Zealand companies, seized control of economic policy in New Zealand and imposed on it a bizarre amalgam of the IMF restructuring programme traditionally imposed on the Third World, traditional … Read more

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] — and doubts about his credibility were immeasurably increased by the failure of his children to back up his alibi. Marita Lorenz, former lover of Fidel Castro-turned-CIA- agent, testified that she had been part of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy along with Hunt, another Watergate ‘plumber’ Frank Sturgis, and some Cubans. But her first-hand knowledge […]

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