Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of international narcotics trafficking and policing of the global drug trade. The Strength of the Pack is the story of how the legacy of Anslinger, the FBN’s boss, and the contradictions between publicly proclaimed policies of interdiction and the actual policies of the national security state, have created an apparatus based on hypocrisy and […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Further, in the ‘temper tantrum method’, the deranged style of manager ‘appears insulted or outraged. All of this in intended to distract from the fact that the boss has no idea what to do.’ Finally, in the world of the spooks we come to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] would call an extensive array of witnesses on his behalf. This list included Colonel Oliver North, President George Bush Snr., General von Tenda (the former head of BOSS the South African intelligence service), Gerrit Pretorious (formerly secretary to President Pik Botha of South Africa) and a range of other individuals including serving CIA officers. […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] and steered 6 In most – e.g. John Rentoul, Tony Blair, (London: Little Brown, 1995), p. 390 – the money came from Barry Cox, Peter Mandelson’s erstwhile boss at London Weekend Television (LWT). On the LWT network see Andy Beckett, ‘A world apart’, in The Guardian (Weekend), 4 September 1999. 7 John Lloyd, New […]