Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Volman trained pro-U.S. cadres for Juan Bosch, the Kennedy administration’s great democratic hope in the Dominican Republic. (Elected president in 1962, Bosch was toppled by a military coup in the fall of 1963. His return to power was blocked in 1965 by President Johnson, who sent thousands of U.S. Marines to occupy the Dominican […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] and is largely a rehashing and enlargement of the previous two.1 He has earlier argued for a secret Kennedy venture known as CDay that planned for a coup in Cuba to be carried out by the Pentagon and the CIA which would be synced with the assassination of Castro by an undercover operator on […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] than experience.’ 22 Allen Dulles visited Rome in mid-August 1953, ostensibly for a holiday, but really so that he could study cable traffic concerning the ongoing Iranian coup. He spent that time in the US Embassy’s operations room with Clare and Gerald Miller, leaving his wife, Clover, to drift around the Italian capital on […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] The Guardian’s sister paper, the Manchester Evening News, announced his candidature in glowing terms: 7 8 9 10 11 12 ‘His appointment would be considered a major coup for the city, with the university at the heart of the strategic vision for Manchester and its position on the science corridor.’1 3 This was not […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] changed the course of the war. Hitler’s original starting date for Operation Barbarossa had been 15 May. It was put back to 22 June after a Britishinspired coup in Belgrade (27 March 1941) installed an anti-Hitler regime, necessitating a German preliminary assault in the Balkans. It seems reasonable to conclude that, if the Germans […]