[PDF file]: […] the author of The Assault on Intelligence, was an Air Force General, who went on to become Director of National Intelligence (1999-2005) and then Director of the CIA (2006-2009). Even more than the previous two volumes under review, Hayden brings to the fore that so repugnant is the character of Donald Trump, and so […]
[PDF file]: […] postal service, in the days before e-mail, the internet and bulk data collection of information. The FBI was operating a constitution-violating domestic mail interception program, and the CIA had its own version called HT/LINGUAL to monitor overseas mail (in which capacity the Agency was already well aware of Lee Oswald’s letters to and from […]
[PDF file]: […] of the events in Dallas can be summarised thus: everybody was involved – mob, military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of […]
[PDF file]: […] Jordan and/or of Nasser blackmailing the UK drove Eden on. Having reached a secret agreement with France and the UK (24 Codenamed Operation Fat Fucker by the CIA. After his abrupt departure, King Faroukh’s private and extensive collection of pornography was the subject of some asttention. 2 October 1956), Israel attacked Egypt on 28 […]
[PDF file]: […] observes, ‘the level of British involvement remains highly classified’ (p. 182). However, he is of the opinion that there was KMS involvement as early as 1982. The CIA were very grateful for British support. The head of its Afghan Task Force not only acknowledged Thatcher as being ‘to the right of Atila the Hun’, […]
[PDF file]: […] which he puts bits and pieces of film and research. Well worth a look.19 * Richard Cummings, who wrote in Lobster about The Paris Review and the CIA, now has a blog.20 His essay there on the actions of the Republicans in America, ‘The Prosperity of Treason’, concludes thus: ‘All of these actions by […]
[PDF file]: […] time of this article appearing he had not responded. I have therefore been unable to discuss Mr Rocco-Rusk’s claims with him, in particular his relationship with the CIA, with whom he claims to have served (for an unspecified period) as a political analyst.1 2 Given the old adage that ‘One does not quit the […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 60 Well, how did we get here? Robin Ramsay Introduction T hat I do this was suggested by Dan Hind and he made a number of useful comments on this text, some additions to it and suggested the title. Essentially I took parts of my 1999 Prawn Cocktail Party, pruned them and topped […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, and plots by MI5/6/ CIA. That’s not to say that Lobster is pandering to the audience forever more bizarre conspiracy theories. There are no stories like “aliens ate my hamster” or […]
[PDF file]: […] memoirs. Although unsentimental, The Hotel Tacloban is saturated with unstated but real empathy for the person whose story is recorded. This empathy was so powerful that former CIA director William Colby, who had read the book, hoped Valentine Jr. would bring that empathy to his book about the soldiers in Phoenix, and granted him […]
