JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam Jaffee about it, suggesting – as he and Weberman did […]

Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] king’s death and the ascent of his son, Savang Vatthana, who did not possess the same amount of shakti/shiva “good luck” as his dad – staged a coup on 25 December 1959. A military junta under fascist Colonel Phoumi Nosavan took charge of the government. Under the guidance of his crazy CIA case officer, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] with Peter Dale 3 4 The first issue of this can be seen at Scott. He’s still writing. A piece of his, on the barely reported US-sponsored coup in Honduras, appeared recently on the Consortium site.5 Bill Blum has been at it nearly as long and recently he announced in his e-mail bulletin, Anti-Empire […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

Lobster Issue

[…] files from 1977/8 there is a copy of an FBI report concerning one of the ‘tramps’ photographs. In 1974 Michael Canfield, co-author with A. J. Weberman of Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, had contacted journalist Sam This note continues at the foot of the next page. […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] too much credit in the system, the Bank of England, on their behalf, would put the interest rates up. What a truly wonderful racket! It was a coup by the Bank of England – on behalf of the clearing banks in particular and the City in general. Having persuaded the Tories to reintroduce ‘freedom’ […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

Lobster Issue

[…] king’s death and the ascent of his son, Savang Vatthana, who did not possess the same amount of shakti/shiva “good luck” as his dad – staged a coup on 25 December 1959. A military junta under fascist Colonel Phoumi Nosavan took charge of the government. Under the guidance of his crazy CIA case officer, […]

Tittle-Tattle

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 […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the criminal world were also part of the staybehind force. These underworld members were loyal to the right-wing cause and, importantly, should senior figures see an outright coup d’état necessary in the event of a militant Labour win at election, they were well outside of government control. Which is what Peter Sanderson described in […]

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