Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] tribal insurgents. This took place against a backdrop of President Nasser announcing the union of Egypt with Syria (February 1958) and Yemen (March 1958) and a pro-Egyptian coup in Iraq (14 July 1958). The latter event resulted in a speedy US intervention in Lebanon (15 July) and a similar British operation in Jordan (17 […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] NY 14063, USA. According to Jules Archer’s book The Plot To Seize The White House (Hawthorn, NY, 1973), General McArthur was the first choice of a right-wing coup plot hatched by J.P. Morgan and other U.S.industrialists (DuPonts, Rockefellers and Mellons among them) who opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt. McArthur was President Roosevelt’s Military Chief of […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] seems profoundly unlikely to me. These books, with their massive documentation, constitute proof. On the other hand, this is also the story of the most spectacular intelligence coup of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, largely using CPUSA members or sympathisers, the Soviet Union built networks such that by the war’s beginning it had […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] Secretary of the Hanson Group, archetypical at the time of predatory capitalism, agreed to sit on the Advisory Board. This was, quite rightly, regarded as a major coup. Adam Lury, a new wave (of the day) advertising executive and now on the Foreign Policy Centre board, and Bob Tyrrell of the Henley Centre (part […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
Peter Taylor has made more TV programmes about Northern Ireland since 1969 than other any British journalist. His most recent was the documentary, Loyalists, earlier this year, a series of interviews with Loyalist paramilitaries and politicians. This was followed by a book, Loyalists (Bloomsbury, 1999), which contained some of the interviews in that programme. Like … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] completely and use UNSCOM and sanctions to police the country, at the same time covertly encouraging groups which would be in a position to stage a military coup. This was not enough for some: on 26 January 1998 Clinton received a letter calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a ‘hazard […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Thatcher’s ear that Gorbachev was on the level, and that she could ‘do business with him’. (A station chief as defector-in-place, Gordiefsky was the ultimate pure espionage coup.) In espionage literature this myth is most strikingly displayed by Verrier’s Through the Looking Glass (Cape, London, 1983). Pitched somewhere between the Sunday Express and the […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] the covert policy.’ In other words Marshall wanted a covert capability outside of his department but still answerable to his guidance. In the aftermath of the Czech coup (the Czechs having been forced to decline Marshall Aid by the USSR the year before), covert operations were further coordinated with the creation of the Office […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
Ben Pimlott Harper Collins, London 1992, £20 At one level, this deserves the plaudits it has received. It is a belting good read, such a good read, in fact, that I had got as far as 1967 before I realized that there was no mention of Lord Cromer, the Governor of the Bank of England … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] the left. His very interesting article on the CIA (and wider American) role in the politics of the Soviet bloc countries post 1991, ‘The Technique of a coup d’etat’, ends with this sentence: ‘But, after Marshall’s exposé of the reality behind the almost identical events in Serbia, there can be no doubt that the […]