Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] www.access.gpo.gov/nara/browse-gm.html) Executive Orders – Presidential EOs, and Intelligence docs – EOs related to intelligence activities. Historic Documents, including Cold War, Cold War International History Project (http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm), Cuban Missile Crisis (full text of 250 official govt docs at Avalon Project: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrelcuba/cubamenu.htm) and the Inspector-General’s Survey of the Cuban Operations (Nat Security Archive: www.gwu.edu/ ~nsarchiv/news/ 19980222.htm), […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
Researchers who ask for pertinent records from the US Air Force about UFOs are provided with a ‘Fact Sheet’ which states that since the closure of Project Blue Book in 1974, the USAF has no interest in, and does not study, the subject. The USAF information pack refers inquirers to various non-governmental UFO research organizations … Read more
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] enjoyed close connections both with elements of the Saudi royal family and Israeli leaders. Khashoggi in turn raised financing for a key sale to Iran of HAWK missile parts in the spring of 1986 from, among other sources, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.(5) Khashoggi maintained accounts at the bank and shared its […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Compiled by Jane Affleck The US GAO is the investigative arm of the US Congress, and is charged with examining all matters relating to the receipt and disbursement of public funds. It conducts audits, surveys, investigations and evaluations of federal programmes, either at its own initiative or at the request of Congressional Committees or members. … Read more
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] are now revered, looked after and recycled as major tourist attractions. We are, of course, unlikely to see that happen to this collection of control towers, runways, missile pads, command posts, watchtowers and other assorted redundancies. But who would have thought back in 1962 that the then heavily defended Thor Missiles Main Base at […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] label), and technical products for various industries, including the defence department of the USA. In the latter it is listed as producing aircraft radomes, rocket motor cases, missile and rocket tubes, pressure vessels, transportable shelters, camouflage materials, and other products for defensive systems against chemical/biological warfare etc. I can only speculate here that some […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a major role in the […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] dangerous because it was an unknown. (8) Which group? Right or left? The Soviets? Cubans? None of the alternatives promised anything but horrors: some promised a Cuban Missile Crisis – or worse. Did the SS have any real choice, any political alternative, but make sure the ‘best evidence’ (the corpse) fitted the existence of […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] have to be partisan. As a result, an image that had ‘legs’ was not even considered, let alone used. Good PR is about accurate communications. Unlike a missile marked ‘Patriot’ (5) or ‘Made in Britain’, a T-shirt can strike its target precisely. Hatred of the USA And so to al-Qaida’s second political message, hatred […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
From David Hambling On the topic of the People Zapper (Lobster 41 p. 9), the new ‘Active Denial System’ is probably not the first microwave weapon to be deployed. There have been repeated rumours of cruise missiles with HPM (high-powered microwave) warheads being used in former Yugoslavia to knock out communications centres, though apparently the … Read more
