The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] income taxes were actually higher than in Sweden. Erlander handed over to Palme, Prime Minister 1969-1976 and 1982-1986. Palme was more obviously of the left. He visited Cuba (the first western leader to do so), criticised the US bombing of Hanoi and supported the PLO and ANC. He introduced a constitution that greatly diminished […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the phenomenon really came to attention in 2017: . . . in connection with strange ailments affecting more than twenty CIA and State Department officials posted to Cuba in the wake of revivified diplomatic relations between the Obama administration and the government headed by Fidel Castro’s brother Raúl. The cases were recorded in Havana […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] to the hilt. Officials from the president on down mentioned it at every opportunity as proof of the Sandinistas’ immorality. “High level officials” of both Nicaragua and Cuba “have been personally implicated” in drug smuggling, Reagan said during the 1985 debates over contra aid (Reagan 1987:673–76). The State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, which […]

The CIA and Radio Nord Simon

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] carry out this mission is of interest. The B-26 would subsequently become first choice for the CIA in its many covert operations, seeing service in Indonesia 1958-1959, Cuba 1961, the Congo 1964 and Biafra 5 Kotschack’s films included a couple of popular dramas set on the Finnish front in the 40s. See the page […]

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[…] they? But this is small beer compared to the late Chauncey Holt who was photographed with Oswald in New Orleans while Oswald was giving out ‘Hands off Cuba’ leaflets24 and photographed on Dealey Plaza two hours after the shooting in the company of mob hit man Charles Harrelson.25 What will it take to persuade […]

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[…] they? But this is small beer compared to the late Chauncey Holt who was photographed with Oswald in New Orleans while Oswald was giving out ‘Hands off Cuba’ leaflets5 and photographed on Dealey Plaza two hours after the shooting in the company of mob hit man Charles Harrelson.6 What will it take to persuade […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] peace conference wrecked by the U2 a year before. The authors’ reluctance to look at the m-i-c in action continues through their acount of the invasion of Cuba – they do not tell us that the CIA planned to force Kennedy into supporting the invasion when it foundered 7 – and into JFK’s assassination, […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] challenging it at several points: in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, in the Middle East (the intervention in Syria), and in Latin America (support not only for Cuba but also the beleaguered Bolivarist government in Venezuela). Russia has also established a Eurasian Economic Union in conjunction with the now independent republics of former Soviet […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Independent and the Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and Royal Navy espionage […]

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