Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] book is over 440 pages, only 153 pages are the author’s. The remaining pages are duplicated copies of documents, released long time ago by the US Defense Intelligence Agency, which are readily available on the Internet. Most of the content of Rifat’s text contains serious flaws. There is no documentation to support his assertions […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] was again: break-ins, pranks, things left in the house, nuisance calls – the familiar repertoire. Which is to say: we still have a secret state whose legal, intelligence and security wings are virtually unregulated. There are now elaborate procedures mimicking regulation – both Kennedy and Henderson are exploring these – but the state can […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] they were rubbished in the Sunday Times (26 November 1995) by MOD flacks James Adams and Liam Clarke; and Fred Holroyd, who was in working in Army Intelligence in the same patch in the same period, has not dismissed them. He says that a lot of Republicans did simply disappear in this period. The […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] of what would be a very interesting book); none of them have taken on board enough of the parapolitical agenda: there is almost nothing on the military- intelligence complex; and all three give too little weight to the dominance of the City in this country’s recent history. But all of them, especially Tiratsoo and […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] including an important piece by Robert Parry, ‘Lost History: Contras, Dirty Money and the CIA.’ Another important background piece is Jack Blum’s testimony to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee last year, which is reproduced in Covert Action Quarterly no. 59. However, in my opinion the two best pieces on the CIA-drugs issue which appeared […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] – or in Chicago or Tampa – there is no evidence. The case they do make is that after the event Robert Kennedy and the entire military- intelligence complex in the US had a major interest in not revealing anything about the several operations that were going on against Castro. The Kennedy ‘coup’ plan […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] I know. On this generally, see Paul Landais-Stamp and Paul Rogers, Rocking the Boat (Berg, Oxford and New York, 1989). For a brief account, focused on the intelligence connections, see Robin Ramsay, ‘How the US tries to subvert Lange’, END Journal No. 26, February 1987. Between 1983 and ’86 seventeen employees of TVNZ went. […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more