Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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’, […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] is always right, well intentioned and frequently the victim. That this fantastic lie is in the films owes something (how much isn’t clear) to the Pentagon and CIA liaison operations with the studios. ‘Wanna borrow a submarine? Talk to the Navy guy.’ If Alford isn’t quite describing the corporations and the state running joint […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] the publication of his 2014 book Bought Journalists46 (currently available only in German) he said that he accepted news stories written and given to him by the CIA and published them under his own name. Ulfkotte said he gathered the aim of much of the deception was to drive nations toward war; that corruption […]