Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour M. Hersh

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] overthrow of the Allende government in Chile; he broke the story of the CIA’s domestic spying and helped expose the CIA’s so-called ‘Family Jewels’, the list of CIA actions which were outside the Agency’s charter. However, the pressure for reform of the CIA was ‘outmuscled by the new Ford administration, managed by Chief of […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[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 […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.11 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

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[…] his readers that two senior American military officers, Col Fletcher Prouty and General Victor Krulak, identified the figure with his back to the camera as the senior CIA officer Edward Lansdale.7 Could you identify someone you knew without seeing their face? Perhaps. If it was Lansdale, he is the only CIA officer positively identified […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of video. But he has attached an additional four pages to the formal presentation. He shows evidence of much hanky-panky with the physical evidence, notably by the CIA, which altered the Zapruder film. I found it very impressive but it has come in for criticism from some of the other researchers.14 Trump and Russia […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[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 […]

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