Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] ERP: the greatest danger to the United States is the possibility of economic collapse in western Europe and the consequent accession to power of communist elements.(22) National Security Council (NSC) directives 4 and 4A in December 1947 illustrated the overt-covert double-act: while 4 covered the organisation of the State Department’s Voice of America and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] information only (eg mission and authority) on these agencies, including CIA, DIA, NSA NRO, Army Navy and Air force Intelligence, depts of State and Energy, FBI. National Security Agency http://www.nsa.gov:8080/ Information about NSA, mission statement, Venona Project, cryptologic museum. Defense Intelligence Agency http://www.dia.mil/ National Reconnaissance Office http://www.odci.gov/ic/usic/nro.html Background information only. NRO’s existence was declassified […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] inside Congress by the pay-off system refined most recently by the unregistered South Korean lobbyist, Tongsun Park, and outside it by the old military-industrial coalition, the American Security Council. All four elements have worked in collaboration since the days when Chinese nationalist gold, via a Mafia-tainted public relations firm, first made Richard Nixon a […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] and Gerry Gable. The reader is invited to accept that Murray has undergone a political conversion and we are offered, as evidence, ‘a sensational expose of the security services’. Unfortunately, most of the book is a rehash of stories researched by others, and the rest is oddly coy over naming names. Murray reworks published […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] (up til 1982, SDECE: Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage), reining in a counter-espionage division that had clashed frequently in the past with the French internal security agencies, and redefining the renamed service’s role as an exclusively overseas one. (But see below re Mazurier…) Marion also centralised the DGSE around his General Directorate […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] in Iraq. Britain’s Iraq Intelligence Product See note (17) One way to evaluate Britain’s Iraq intelligence product is to read SIS’s ‘Briefing Note’ to the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) which was published in September 2003.(18) Under the heading ‘The Iraqi in the Street’, and sticking to all outdated stereotypes, SIS writes, ‘Are you […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] response. Some of my FOIA requests with the CIA have been pending for three years. Back in Whitehall After my letter of August 18, 1994 to the Security Service Tribunal requesting an investigation of the continuous harassment my family and I have suffered, the Tribunal Secretary wrote on August 24, ‘I will arrange for […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
Articles of note The British Lion “Letters to the Editor”, from Maxwell Knight. ‘Opium, tungsten, and the Search for National Security, 1940-52’, by Jonathan Marshall, in Journal of Policy History, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1991. (Published at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.) Marshall is the former producer of the wonderful Parapolitics […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] star chamber where he wasn’t allowed to call his own witnesses, cross-examine anyone or to be legally represented.’ In letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] in Liverpool is so great that there is an involvement by Special Branch because, and I believe I am right in quoting, it has implications for national security. I gave them specific items of information concerning Derek Hatton and other individuals in Liverpool. They went down, Hounam went down, and checked out the information […]
