The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Lownie 12 13 See, for instance, Greg Palast’s recounting of how that all started (from July of 1998) at or 14 offered about the 1968 Cecil King ‘coup’ event. It’s pretty much the story as before, though firmed up a little. Yes, there was a meeting called by Cecil King, the Chair of the […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] possible explanations; either a very clever intelligence ruse was being played out so as to buy time, thus staving off an invasion, or there was a genuine coup under way. A coup designed simply to unseat Churchill. That is why Hess flew to Scotland. Had he wished to have made a peace with Churchill, […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Abroad, 1945-51’, writes that ‘The IRD was formed at the Foreign Office as a direct response to increasingly hostile Soviet propaganda in the wake of the communist coup in Prague, the escalating blockade of West Berlin and mounting pressure on Finland.’ Taylor in Michael Dockrill and John W. Young (eds.) 1989. 62 See, for […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] only two names not censored on the publicly available version of CX 95/53452 are that of Colonel Gaddafi himself and Musa Qadhaf Al-Dam (who was ‘murdered by coup plotters in June’). 23 24 25 See footnote 14. Ramadan Abedi might well be an MI6 asset but, on the basis of what is said in […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

Lobster Issue

[…] the scale and extent of the far right terrorist activity carried out by both individuals and groups in recent years. All of which culminated in Trump’s attempted coup on 6 January 2021. Trump was initially convinced that he could rely on the courts to invalidate the result of the Presidential election: after all, he […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

Lobster Issue

[…] Quoted at . 5 6 Nixon’s ‘personal advertising agency’. Hougan’s work in Secret Agenda was elaborated a little by Len Colodny and Robert Gettling in their Silent Coup (reviewed in Lobster 26) and a bit more in Phil Stanford’s White House Call Girl (reviewed in Lobster 68 at ). The one item the author […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] psychological warfare campaign intended to inculcate the American rightwing with not only a religious yearning for martial law but also a perverse hunger for an outright military coup in the U.S. – was a buildup to the insurrection of January 6 in case Trump lost what his 2016 campaign advisor Roger Stone characterized as […]

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