Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] in public care in Kincora and other institutions, but none of them has satisfactorily addressed public concerns. What makes Kincora remarkable is the lingering suspicion that British Intelligence connived in the continued abuse of children, in order to secure intelligence on Loyalist paramilitaries. This paper shows that there is good reason for that suspicion. […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could 3 For an early argument along these lines, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the following people/groups Julius Draznin: Giancana and the Chicago Mob Walter Sheridan: Carlos Marcello and New Orleans Mob Pat Moynihan: Jimmy Hoffa and the Secret Service French Intelligence: HL Hunt and the rightwing’ Who’s not on that list? The most obvious candidate of all, the man who benefited most from the assassination, vice president […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the Bridge * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] which will not be disclosed concerning for example military operations or cyphers. Government agencies whose information is largely of a necessarily secret kind such as security and intelligence services, are in some countries excluded from the access requirements altogether or in others included but subject to exemptions which in practice need to cover a […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the shadows. But in Norton-Taylor’s highly believable account, the British media is nearly always accommodating if not weak before the influence […]