The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] security companies, give or take a few ex-KGB bods, are all Anglo-Saxon, with personnel institutionalised by specific national agendas, including the commercial. This not only conditions a mind set, which includes belief in racial and other dominance, but leaves them unable to cope in a market-place where: a) the ‘prestige’ (for want of another […]

Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] not only on the Labour Movement and his former allies, but in the words of his former wife Margaret, has sold his soul to the devil. Never mind, that ghastly conservative creep Blair tells us we should be proud of our MI6 boys and girls for they give us a cutting edge over the […]

A conversation with Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] of ’63. RR: Bobby was an election winner. PDS: Put it this way: Johnson was an election loser. And the way the American system works they don’t mind if somebody’s going to lose because they usually control the other guy too. But the Kennedys were never exactly controllable because they had so much money […]

USA & the CIA

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

A Covert Life. Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster Ted Morgan New York: Random House, 1999, $29.95 Freedom’s War: The US Crusade Against the Soviet Union Scott Lucas Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999, £45 Secret History: The CIA’s Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala 1952-54 Nick Cullather Stanford (California): Stanford University Press 1999, £8.95 […]

Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] 2 Though I still don’t buy Walter Bowart’s Satan’s Slaves Meet Black Helicopters thesis, the winter 1995 issue of Unclassified offers one of the footnotes Bowart’s Operation Mind Control 2 cries out for, an article about a CIA-sponsored paedophile group called ‘The Finders’. The tale is bizarre, but it contains names, dates and documentation […]

The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh New York and London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006 $75.00 (US), £37.99 (UK), h/b   This is an interesting and timely book and it is a great pity it is so expensive. Put out as a paperback and maybe with a less academic-sounding title, this would sell. Little of it is intellectually taxing and any […]

Lockerbie, the octopus and the Maltese double cross

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] Talb. After lengthy sessions with CIA personnel, the Maltese shopkeeper who had previously recognised a photograph of Talb — a 35 year-old Palestinian — apparently changed his mind and fingered a Libyan airline official in his fifties. This identification, along with allegations — later disproved — that a Swiss-made timing device for the Lockerbie […]

Who’s afraid of the KGB

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters – something like 100,000 words – there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What … Read more

Recent JFK (and related) literature

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

BROWN, Walt. Referenced Index Guide to the Warren Commission. Wilmington (Delaware): elmax, 1995. 303 pps. An essential work of navigation for anyone sailing the seas of the Report and the Hearings and Exhibits. Supplements rather than replaces the search facilities on the Warren Commission CD-ROMs. COLLOM, Mark, and SAMPLE, Glen. The Men on the Sixth … Read more

How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Election time! Ah, the roar of the hustings; the pulse of democracy is about to be taken. The enduring worthiness of our political system is about to be proven yet again. But what’s that you say? Something’s not quite right with the result? You smell a rat? Be quiet. Such things only happen in tin-pot … Read more

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