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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] crises than appeared at the time. In the Cuban missile crisis, for example, it now appears that the Soviet Union already had some tactical nuclear weapons in Cuba before the crisis erupted, so an attempted US invasion could have resulted in nuclear use. Furthermore, during the crisis, US fighters were airborne from bases in […]

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JFK: Oswald? Which one?

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] decision to withdraw from Vietnam was….. also part of a larger strategy, of a sequence that included the Laos and Berlin settlements in 1961, the non-invasion of Cuba in 1962, the Test Ban Treaty in 1963. Kennedy subordinated the timing of these events to politics: he was quite prepared to leave soldiers in harm’s […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] mistakes made by the United States and CIA in the past. The usual CIA mode of undermining foreign governments it does not like — from Russia to Cuba to Iran — has been to organize and train their opponents in criminal activities, including sabotage and smuggling. But time and again this strategy backfires. The […]

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] countries for research. Although it is unclear to what use they were put, AEC documents show isotopes were sent to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, the UK and Uraguay. In response to my inquiry, […]

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United States foreign policy

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] or the testing of such weapons, and the use of powerful herbicides, all causing terrible effects to the people and environments of China, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Panama, Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and elsewhere. Encouragement of drug trafficking in various parts of the world when it served the CIA’s purposes. Supporting death squads, especially in […]

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…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] offering them a terrorist organisation to join. (Lee Harvey Oswald was probably doing something similar for the FBI in New Orleans with his one-man Fair Play for Cuba Committee.) Or informants, paid by results, elaborate, expand and exaggerate their activities. (Bits of all of this seems to have been happening in Wales over the […]

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The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] 1 George Thayer, The British Political Fringe (London: Anthony Blond, 1965), p. 55. 2. Del Valle became involved in intelligence work while serving under Admiral Freeman in Cuba in the 1930s. In the June 1961 Task Force, the journal of the DAC, del Valle said that in 1933-34, ‘I participated in the special service […]

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Like books we should have so many witnesses?: Some recent JFK literature

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] themselves. Someone gave them the wink. As I’ve said elsewhere, Davis, Scheim and Blakey have mistaken the monkey for the organ grinder. DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba and the Garrison Case. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. xxii and 423 pp. Illustrated, bibliography, index. A major reassessment of the Garrison case. DiEugenio makes […]

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Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] me in the conspiracists’ camp? Perhaps because my article is conspiratorial in tone. That is, it retraces an extended and suspect hegira that Jones took to Mexico, Cuba and South America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to […]

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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] A US president, a former Commander-in-Chief, warns America about the power of the military-industrial complex? On network television? 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 […]

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