Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] or influence: Argentina, Bolivia, Congo, Egypt, France, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jordan…. Denying and obscuring the CIA’s role in various assassinations, coups, and interventions helps create in the mind of Americans a certain view of the history of the past fifty years, of the role of the American government and, in particular, of the role […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Belfast worsened and, as an interim measure, Gibbons ordered 500 rifles to be transported to Dundalk on the border. The rifles had been stockpiled with this in mind – against the advice of Kelly, as they were traceable to the Irish Army – after a potential purchaser in August 1969 turned out to have […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] about Spanish history and just skipped those sections.) The book as a whole is an interesting account of the post-war British left, albeit from one particular viewpoint; and, despite odd flashes of score-settling, Meltzer is an amusing raconteur. But a memoir without a name index…..? A metaphor involving tits and a bull comes to mind.
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] wants’ at . 19 See, for example, . 20 6 inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the CIA. (Never mind the rumours that World Vision itself provides cover for the CIA.) and ‘suspected’ (used twice) in that quotation above. Perhaps one day there will be some […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] all lies and nonsense. Fort Bliss really is situated at the four-state square conjunction as specified, but it had no role whatsoever in any of the USA’s mind control research. Nor is it connected to the US Navy, being a US Army post. The Navy’s early mind control research, Project CHATTER, was abandoned in […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the 26th of that month. Baldrige warned: ‘I think he’s unhappy about some of the things Time has been publishing.’30 As Clare discovered, the subject occupying Kennedy’s mind was Cuba. Face-to-face with Kennedy, Clare told him that she could not understand why communism in Vietnam was such a pressing problem for his administration, when […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] there is very little reliable information. What there is, try Searchlight No 28 and New Statesman 18 December 1977. This might be a suitable place to re mind readers that Searchlight is run, if not by, then certainly with the co-operation of, MI5. This was made plain by the “Gerry Gable memo” mentioned in […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] disclosure could seriously harm international relations. With the Soviet Union dissolved and Whitlam long dead, it’s difficult to imagine which international relations the Cabinet Office has in mind. There is absolutely no suggestion that Mr Murdoch’s old friend David Cameron is in any way doing him some kind of personal favour by withholding the […]