Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special was non-existent. […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] into. (4) The first such category is literature which is consciously produced and/or disseminated for propaganda purposes, often by people with direct or indirect links to the intelligence services of countries that are members of either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. These works, being designed primarily to manipulate public perceptions and thereby generate support […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] the now famous ‘plagiarised report’, ‘Iraq, its infrastructure of concealment, deception and intimidation’, comprised of material taken from the Middle East Review of International Affairs and Jane’s Intelligence Review, without acknowledgement, reproduced with their original errors but rewritten in places to make it seem more impressive. (4) This was business as usual for the […]
Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££
Part One A to B See also: Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) Georg Simmel said ‘The purpose of secrecy is above all […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] 1970s program at Stanford Research Institute in Melano Park, CA, to Russell Targ.(2) The CIA announcement On September 6, 1995, the Public Affairs Bureau of the Central Intelligence Agency released the following statement regarding that agency’s role in Remote Viewing: ‘As mandated by Congress, CIA is reviewing available information and past research programs concerning […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] cover-up; concede a little more; maintain what’s left and so on – in the hope that we don’t notice what they’re doing. Thus the admission that important intelligence information was kept from Lord Hutton (but given to Lord Butler);(1) and the absurd spectacle of Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announcing in October, after the Iraq […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency Richard Helms and William Hood (New York: Random House, 2003) The Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary , 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] dealing with terrorism, many of which appear to be the direct or indirect products of a loosely-coordinated disinformation campaign launched by hardline rightist elements with various Western intelligence services and disseminated through their media assets.(4) This ever-increasing flood of material portrays ‘international terrorism’ as an essentially left-wing phenomenon, specifically as a form of ‘surrogate […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
Accountability I will be discussing a non subject – the accountability of the intelligence services. By accountable we mean the ability to be brought to account, to be answerable for their actions, to be subject to scrutiny and ultimately to have their actions adjudicated upon in a court of law. I will be looking […]