The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] some of their ultimately irrational views may have seemed.(12) Knight and Livingstone were operating during a time when the Allende government had been overthrown in a CIA-backed coup and the Salazar regime in Portugal had collapsed overnight in 1974, to give but two examples of dramatic change during those years. Something like this happening […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] “I have absolutely no doubt that someone or something got to them before we did“‘ (emphasis added). The amazing Mr Logan From: Gordon Logan Subject: The Moscow Coup and MI6’s Murders ‘I am sending the text of a letter that I sent to the British Home Office a few months ago. I have been […]

SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Before he could speak, I opened fire and emptied a magazine into them without anyone realising what I was doing. I changed magazines and gave each the coup de grace. I wanted no survivors to talk of white assassins.’ (p. 122) The following year, with Hind, he assassinated the ZANU leader, Herbert Chitepo and […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] touch them. “Collaboration with the CIA went beyond certain French intelligence units to the highest circles, to the men closest to de Gaulle”. (Henrik Kruger, The Great Heroin Coup  (Montreal 1980) p. 67).This included Pompidou, who was blasted verbally by de Gaulle but who could do little more than shout. One of those arrested was […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] planned and executed by the CIA and British SIS). ‘The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initialing and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West’s control over Iranian oil…The operation was the blueprint for a succession of […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] if true – I am unable to decide. Since the Pentagon has control of most things which affect its well-being, why would they bother with a formal coup?’ As I make abundantly clear in my book (e.g. pp. 225-26, citing the 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 38, 326, and Richard Clarke’s Against All Enemies, p. […]

The Strength of the Wolf

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] assassination, he writes: ‘Meanwhile, General Walker, the far-right American Security Council (including General Lansdale and Air America Chairman Admiral Felix Stump) and Texas ultras started plotting their coup d’etat in Dallas.’ He presents no evidence of this; nor is there any, to my knowledge. On p.431 he writes: ‘….the CIA imported Phoenix to America […]

The Internet: a strategic assessment by the US Department of Defense

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] to ‘circumvent the informational controls imposed by authoritarian regimes on their citizens……… for example, the Chinese students in Tiananmen Square and the Russian democrats during the Moscow coup used computer networks to communicate with kindred spirits around the world’. It notes that it played an important role in recent conflicts. Citizens of Sarajevo could […]

Spooks – U.K.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

2. Freedom and the Security Services – a Labour Party Discussion Document (£1.50 plus postage from The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held … Read more

The Rebel Who Lost His Cause: the tragedy of John Beckett MP

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] leader!), who was increasingly out of touch with reality. The final proof was during the abdication crisis when Mosley confidently expected Edward VIII to stage a constitutional coup, dissolving Parliament and installing him as Prime Minister. The call never came, although there were a few in Establishment circles who were worried that the King […]

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