Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] of the first issue,24 Garrison is very much closer to Parapolitics and Covert Action than it is to Paranoia, The Realist and Steamshovel. The Intelligence Party ‘The CIA is emerging as a domestic political party. I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial sense (though it has conspiratorial implications), and I don’t mean it literally. […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on top of that the IRC was also instrumental in […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain its decisions, leave any trace of them, […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ever was, the central committee of global capitalism as is believed by some. 9/11 There was a very striking piece on Politico about the attempts by the CIA to warn the Bush administration about the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the months and weeks before 9/11.8 5 6 7 8 CIA personnel have […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] US intelligence community’s ‘unstated anti-Israel policy’.105 Countering these charges, the NSA, in its recently declassified but still heavily redacted account of the Yom Kippur War, blames the CIA. The NSA confirms that by September 1973 ‘more and more . . . analysts came to believe that hostilities were in the offing’. Prohibited from providing […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. How many genuine vaccination drives […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] as a view of the assassination it is hilarious. Hunter has JFK killed by a sniper in the Dal-Tex building on Dealey Plaza, working for a senior CIA officer who believed that Kennedy was going to embroil America deeper and deeper in the quagmire of Vietnam! In an afterword Hunter tells us that he […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]