Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] politicians and diplomats his well-founded insights into what their opposite numbers in the USA were privately thinking. Whatever the truth about Brandon’s relationship with MI6, this is intelligence work. The coming of Monetarism Monetarism, which both the UK and the USA had rejected as a means of keeping inflationary pressures under control in the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] and Kissinger’s sabotaging of the 1968 Paris peace talks (an early ‘October Surprise’), no discussion of Nixon’s links with Howard Hughes, and the links to that vast intelligence underworld. Nixon’s defining moments, the Watergate scandal, his impeachment, and resignation, exist in a similarly conspiracy-free light. Greenberg repeatedly quotes with approval those reporters who admit […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] mean the business about Mr. Felt having denied for 30 years that he was Throat, or Woodward’s insistence that Mr. Throat was not a part of the intelligence community. (1) What I’m concerned about, in a general way, is Deep Throat’s ‘legacy’, which is more or less the ruination of investigative journalism. Through its […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] had gained in popular strength, although its steady infiltration of the Iranian government and other institutions continued’.(69) As for the Tudeh’s attempting a coup, a State Department intelligence report of January 1953 noted that ‘an open Tudeh move for power……would probably unite independents and non-communists of all political leanings and would result……in energetic efforts […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] more dense, more difficult in places and more depressing than it did in isolated essays. The underlying message is clear and alarming: if governments give military- or intelligence agency-sponsored scientists large amounts of money and no political control they will eventually come up with technologies with which to control the behaviour and thinking of […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
Greg Philo and David Miller Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education, 2001, £16.99 I asked the publisher for this on the basis of the title and the authors: Greg Philo has written many books for the Glasgow University Media Group (Bad News, More Bad News etc.) and David Miller is the author of Don’t Mention the … Read more
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
Edited by James H. Fetzer Catfeet Press, Chicago Distributed in the UK by The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at £29.50 (hb) £14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited … Read more