Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and the UK: essentially the beliefs that the Soviets were subverting Britain through the CPGB’s role in trade unions and were attempting to turn Ireland into another Cuba. If the CPGB’s role in trade unions was real, there is no evidence that it was being directed by the Soviets – had there been any […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] genuine, many forged.196 For the most part IRD tried, yet again, to establish the insurgents as a part of the Soviet global conspiracy: Ireland was ‘the next Cuba’. But after the re-election of the Wilson government in 1974 they also began trying to show support for the IRA from a Labour Party influenced by […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: Weather weapons: the dark world of environmental warfare T. J. Coles Didn’t it rain Declassified records show that from 1949 to 1955, the Royal Air Force (RAF) released various substances, including dry ice, silver iodide, and salt into the atmosphere at high altitudes in order to induce rain. ‘The clouds would then precipitate, pulled down […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] substitute for armed force in resisting Communist inroads in the Third World.’ 1 This ultimately led to complacency in tactics and methods, and the subsequent failure in Cuba in 1961. Guatemalan politics was also transformed, but not along the path of ‘success’ – as the CIA operation was codenamed – and democracy but one […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] and trying to stop Pablo Neruda winning the Nobel prize – with accounts of the Cuban revolution and its impact in South America, subsequent American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non-communist left (NCL to […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] peace conference wrecked by the U-2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their account of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered – and into JFK’s assassination, where […]