Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] played an important ideological role in broadly speaking secular organisations. The John Birch Society was founded in 1958. It took its name from a Baptist missionary and intelligence officer who had been killed by the Communist Chinese and whom they described as the first casualty of the Cold War. The Birchers claimed that America […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] claimed to be confidential briefings “off the record”. The real reason which could not be told publicly for our entry to the common market was because our intelligence service had learned the Soviet Unions had plans to invade Western Europe and these would be carried out once the trade unions in Western Europe led […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] drug and other criminal activities the Nicaraguan bishops had complained back in 1978. Equally disastrous was the initial decision to leave oversight of the Contras to Argentine intelligence officers, for whom the drug-financing of operations was a way of life. On March 16, 1998, in response to Webb’s allegations, the CIA Inspector-General admitted that […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] him by launching the largest private sector political warfare campaign in history against him. But there are other factors. For an American politician, getting embroiled with the intelligence services or the military looks almost uniquely dangerous. There are also two more general reasons for the inertia. The Democrats are reluctant to criticise America, domestically […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] that he ‘has been a long standing member of the Trade Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding’. Conclusion These are just some of the right-wing and intelligence efforts to suborn the trade union and Labour Party Right in recent decades. So, should anyone take notice of any of the above? Radical trade unionists […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] agency in the covert alliance is simply doing what it is told. Nothing has changed in 20 years, the UN is still a prime target for US intelligence and, doubt-less, little old New Zealand is still doing its bit.'(3) Were an equivalent report on GCHQ to turn up in the UK, would any of […]