Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] specific exemptions, but as Mr Jones is keen to observe: ‘Exemption three allows Congress to pass a new exemption at any time -– this is how the CIA Operational Files exemption was created. To date there are over 300 of these on the books… including information about watermelon growing techniques! That these statutory exemptions […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] military high command will continue to succeed in portraying Afghanistan as ‘the good war’. The United States overthrew the Taliban by means of a comparative handful of CIA agents and special forces personnel allied with the warlords of the Northern Alliance. With the support of overwhelming US air power, this small army was able […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] he himself established to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would have been […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] 2001. Effectively, they handed the country over to these people and it remained with them until the fall of Kabul. But another factor is certainly that the CIA had a preference for dealing with these people anyway. Bribery and corruption was very much part of the CIA’s modus operandi; the Agency has helped keep […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of the program was to mislead most people in the US about government policy and the nature of pacification. This very intense multi-agency programme, spearheaded by the CIA, produced a generation of professional assassins and colonial mandarins who have held power for the past 30-odd years: just to mention a couple, Negroponte and Holbrooke.5 […]