Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

[…] Hunt, two senior ex-CIA officers, joined ex-FBI Gordon Liddy in ‘the plumbers’.4 The author can’t quite demonstrate that Hunt, and/or McCord, and/or Eugenio Martinez (a CIA contract agent, also in ‘the plumbers’), told the CIA what they were doing out of the White House basement. But it would be a surprise if none of […]

Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves by Matthew Sweet

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] an area known as the Black Section, though, apparently, Angleton took little interest in it. According to Jefferson Morley, however, ’Chaos’ had 40 employees and ‘utilized’ 130 agent sources – Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017) pp. 218-9. Further, Morley contradicts […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and Bloom offers no source on this. And […]

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