An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Then Kennedy had to face down the military over Cuba. No wonder Kennedy let John Frankenheimer use the White House to shoot his movie about a military coup, 7 Days in May. Finally: readers of a delicate ideological disposition should note that Pepper is a gloriously unreconstructed lefty and there are a couple of […]

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Ribbontrop Blair

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] Axis Tripartite Pact, Ribbentrop had assured Yugoslavia that Germany would respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. On March 27, 1941, he attended the meeting, held after the coup d’état in Yugoslavia, at which plans were made to carry out Hitler’s announced intention to destroy Yugoslavia.’ (4) There was also limited evidence against Ribbentrop in […]

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Churchill and Secret Service

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] was trying to frame Lansbury for treason, Churchill was himself coming close ‘to flirting with treason’. Churchill appeared to endorse Sir Henry Wilson’s fantasies about a military coup to overthrow Lloyd George and establish a government committed to a crusade against Bolshevism. While he backed away from Wilson’s intrigues, what is significant is that […]

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Trying to kill Nasser

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] a meeting in Rome with his MI6 contact in February 1957. Between then and the following November Khalil was given a total of £162,500 to finance a coup and restore the monarchy. This was terminated on “23 rd December when Nasser announced the existence of the ‘restoration plot’ – as it became known – […]

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The Crux of the Matter

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] (ex Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton); President/CEO Steve Nicandros (ex-Pres. Conoco International Operations); and Advisers John Deutch (ex-CIA Director) and Lloyd Bentsen (ex-Treasury Secretary.). ‘A coup attempt in 1998 led the chairman of the National Independence Party to call for NATO or the United States to station a military contingent in Georgia […]

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An Incorrect Political Memoir

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] did — real people with real names (if only we knew who they were!) deciding he was a threat to their private interests and successfully engineering a coup. Besides Fletcher Prouty, who has long maintained this view, another Stone advisor was Major John M. Newman, a professor and former military intelligence officer, whose competence […]

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The secret of the 1917 ‘Balfour declaration’

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] Foundation Press, 1997), 35-53 S. Dubow, ‘Colonial nationalism, the Milner Kindergarten and the rise of “South Africanism” ’, History Workshop Journal, 43 (1997), 53-85 The Lloyd George Coup, December 1916 Lloyd George became Prime Minister in 1916, but he was put in office by the Milner Group, as is obvious to anyone (except, of […]

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Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] 1953-55 FO 1956-58 BONN 1959 COUNSELLOR CAIRO 1963 COUNSELLOR FO 1967 AMBASSADOR KUWAIT 1968 UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1970 POLITICAL RESIDENT IN PERSIAN GULF INVOLVED IN COUP OMAN (OMAN IN THE 20TH CENTURY JE PETERSON LONDON 1978) 1972 VISITING FCO FELLOW ST ANTONY’S COLL OXFORD 1973 DEP UNDER SEC OF STATE FCO 1975 […]

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Our Searchlight problem

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] is the thesis that has always been promoted by Searchlight. From their famous issue ‘The Men in the Shadows’ (no. 18, November 1976) through to their ‘Quiet Coup’ issue (no. 144, June 1987), Searchlight has consistently pointed the finger at the activities of former MI6 Vice Chief G.K. Young and ‘the bridge’ between the […]

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Watergate revisited: Hougan’s ‘Secret Agenda’

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] liberal. The CIA and its allies in the mass media toppled Nixon only to lose the estimates war in the long run anyway. Watergate wasn’t really a coup d’etat as some, notably Coulson, have suggested. Hougan’s point that the CIA could hardly have predicted the fall of Nixon has to be considered, but there […]

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