Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] all been under threat from new, sophisticated arrivals. Anything that damages the brand – supposedly offering alternative worlds and values – kills it. Those who lobbed the missile at its HQ in September – and the guilty are just as likely to be ‘competitor’ (including internal and/or ‘friendly’), as ‘enemy’, even if the attack […]

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In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] Professor Lewis was the only Prosecution witness to give significant testimony on the ‘restricted’ document; and he claimed he could personally identify its use on Britain’s ALARM missile. Professor Lewis also claimed the document would enable an enemy to jam ALARM, which would put British lives at risk. He further claimed that Saddam Hussein […]

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Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

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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 […]

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Ian MacGregor: AMAX and armaments (Part 2)

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 […]

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Are spies useless? A Hack’s Progress

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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 […]

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The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

‘Isn’t it true that when those poor devils stop suffering it is through a loss of what you call psyche?'(1) The psychotronics era The former Soviet Union had a long history of programmes in energetics and psycho-energetics technology, known to the West as psychotronics. Until recently, the bulk of the initial work on the science … Read more

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The CIA and the Culture of Failure

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] and thoroughly documented book is a history of the most important of those recent contests, from the debate in the 1970s over the scale of the Soviet missile ‘threat’ through to the invasion of Iraq.(2) Essentially, the CIA has been in an impossible position. Tasked with surveilling the entire planet, which can’t done, even […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] Defence against which missiles? There is one section of the John Diamond book on the CIA, reviewed below, which deserves picking out. Diamond points out that the missile defence system which the US is deploying, apparently against ‘rogue states’, is not to defend the US against nuclear attack by ‘rogue states’ but to enable […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] the work of other, more substantial, JFK researchers. CIA admits overestimating Soviet weapons Newly declassified documents in the US show that the CIA exaggerated the Soviet Unions missile programme. ‘The summary of a 1989 CIA internal review said every major intelligence assessment from 1974 to 1986 – a period covering at least three presidencies […]

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