The CIA and The Paris Review

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] he was an agent of influence for the CIA, according to a former ambassador who served on the National Security Council. That is, he was not an intelligence officer as Matthiessen was, but one of the many journalists who were paid sub rosa to penetrate the media to influence policy. By deciding who would […]

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Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] and the following week; Guardian 16 July 1976; Searchlight nos. 18 and 21. 7. Private Eye speculated that the documents had been leaked by “moderates” inside British intelligence, alarmed at the activities of some of the “wild men”. This view, attractive though it is, has no evidence to support it. 8. Best collection of […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] passed into history, the essay also builds to a general overview of transnationalised backing for right-wing repressive forces, or parafascists, that operate on the fringes of state intelligence and security systems. Except in details, I have not attempted to update the essay, whose general thesis has been unfortunately only too corroborated by ensuing events. […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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[PDF file]: […] He discusses these differences on pp. 84-5. Godson’s obituary was in The Times, 6 September 1986. 41 Godson’s son, Roy, who appears on the same trade union/ intelligence circuit in the 1970s, married Sam Watson’s daughter. Watson was one of the most important trade union leaders in the post-war period, chairman of the National […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to ‘misrepresent to each party the critical elements of the other, ensuring the war and its subsequent Arab oil embargo’. Engdahl also accused Kissinger of suppressing vital intelligence on the Arab build-up for the war.10 But Kissinger was merely following the Bilderberg plan allegedly devised months earlier in Sweden: ‘The war and its aftermath, […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] revisions. This is something Morley would not do. Thomas Powers actually met James Angleton and recalls the conversation they had as a basic Angleton tutorial on counter- intelligence (CI) techniques. They talked about the collection of ‘serials’ on subjects and the opening of chronologies on people and events, along with two basic rules of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in North Korea.’ Interview in Korea: The Unknown War, Thames Television (UK) 1988. 25 David Dean Rusk (1909-1994) was a Rhodes scholar and became a US Army intelligence officer during WWII; later Deputy Under Secretary of State and then Assistant Secretary of State for Far East Affairs, and finally Secretary of State to Presidents […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex- intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of its housemasters, William McGrath, was the leader […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he managed to penetrate the CIA-Air Force U2 program run out of a highly restricted area in the huge Atsugi base on behalf of the Soviet Union’s intelligence services; that as an air-traffic controller, Oswald tracked U-2 flights out of Atsugi and learned just how high the U-2 flew. With this information, the Soviets […]

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