Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] and the collapse of detente in the late 1970s. Absolutely fascinating stuff. The long encounter between Alexander Haig and a Cuban minister, with Haig lecturing him on Cuba having no right to intervene in the affairs of other countries, is an absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] and Carter got screwed electorally by an alliance of spooks, the military and their intellectual flunkies who recreated the ‘Soviet threat’ (Team B, the ‘Soviet brigade’ on Cuba, etc.). The author’s analysis distinguishes him from others who see a neo-con cabal currently running things. He shows them merely fronting and generating rationales for the […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] — that the French had used. And again, the American Mafia was involved through their Corsican contacts. From Tampa, Florida, Santos Trafficante ran the Marseilles connection in Cuba during the 1950s. In 1968 he visited Saigon to meet with Corsican syndicate leaders. After 1970, Asian heroin began showing up in the U.S. After the […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock handles the immensely detailed material very well; […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] Astor. In one of those intriguing coincidences, Astor played a role in Ivanov’s attempts to intervene in the Cuban Missile Crisis. On the Thursday evening of the Cuba week, Astor suggested Ivanov should meet ‘Boofy’ Gore, the Earl of Arran. At the time it seemed to be an eccentric choice for behind-the-scenes diplomacy. But […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] Japan and works his way right through all the major events in the history of Pentagon: interservice rivalries; manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] A Party at Kitty and Stud’s. Poundstone even tells you where you can get the video.) SCOTT, Peter Dale. Deep Politics II: Essays on Oswald, Mexico and Cuba: The New Revelations in US Government Files, 1994-95. Skokie (Illinois): Green Archive Publications, 1995. + 162 pps. Notes, index. Thirteen new essays by one of the […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] there are precedents for the American state faking a causa belli: the sinking of the USS Maine to provide the pretext for the war with Spain over Cuba; the Gulf of Tonkin; and we could add a vast array of examples of smaller psy-ops. But I cannot imagine any such group deciding that this […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] ‘a rare flash of skepticism,’ decided that ‘his denial cannot be credited.’ Oswald had earlier used the alias ‘Osborne’ in New Orleans when ordering Fair Play for Cuba literature. And there are other intriguing connections and coincidences.Eddowes thought that Osborne was either a freelance or Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. […]