Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] on the bombing of Earth First’s Judi Bari; Kenn Thomas on attempts to get Timothy Leary’s FBI file via the FOIA; a disinformation operation by South African intelligence (the non-existent FAPLA); a memoir of radical politics in the mid-West of the 1930s; interview with Flatland editor Jim Martin; plus new books and the Flatland […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] she shows why there has been recent stalemate over the RUC. This armed police force was pivotal in much of the action and most of the floating intelligence in the past. Could the same people provide an equitable police force for all the people of Northern Ireland? To mix metaphors somewhat, the description she […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Haig, a popular candidate; second, although not named, he is situated in the past of Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. Hougan says that Woodward worked for Naval Intelligence at the highest levels and speculates that Deep Throat was connected to Admiral Zumwalt who was opposed to Nixon’s foreign policy. Woodward has denied this, as […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what was the mechanism? The CANZAB counter- intelligence conferences begun in the 1960s look interesting…. Below, Owen Wilkes discusses the first book, albeit a novel, to attempt to elaborate the New Zealand situation; and […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] either conciliate or effectively repress the Zionists, the British were doomed. The lack of a viable political strategy showed itself on the ground in the lack of intelligence. Intelligence is the key to operational success in counterinsurgency and the British signally failed to penetrate the Zionist resistance. The scale of the failure is shown […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] the OSS during the war, working closely with James Angleton. He had also worked with Meyer Lansky on Operation Underworld, the Mob’s first contact with the US intelligence community. Peter Dale Scott describes White in Deep Politics and the Death of JFK as ‘part of the “inner circle”‘, one of those who liaised between […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] World War. A proportion of this was paid over to the Perons by Bormann in exchange for being allowed entry into the country. In 1954, when Israeli intelligence agents seeking out Nazi war criminals became aware of the gold’s existence, it was swiftly transferred to the Philippines. Why the Philippines was chosen is not […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head of ISI, Gul is the key figure involved in the training and equipping of the mojahedin based around Peshawar, and is their […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] her comments at Kwiatkowski is dropping broad hints that, in her view, there is something fishy here. In ‘Pakistan and 9/11’, at B. Raman, a former Indian intelligence officer, discusses advance knowledge of 9-11 among Pakistan’s intelligence community and concludes: ‘It is, therefore, impossible that the Pakistani authorities would not have known of Al […]