Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Rabat, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi. No embassies, no consulates, no foreign service officers on the ground. Israel’s chief point contact with these wary allies was its international intelligence service, the Mossad. “Mossad is in charge of building diplomatic connections with the regimes where we don’t have a diplomatic relationship,” one former Israeli intelligence commander […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or 2 or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 15 years by conspiracy theories, many of which were obvious nonsense.9 I wonder if some smart alecs in the White House, or its allies in the US intelligence community, didn’t help to create or propagate them. Jonathan Marshall W hen Lobster began in 1983 there were only two similar publications: Intelligence and Parapolitics out […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 2 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

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[…] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] hunts, double (and triple) agents, James Angleton’s paranoia and the Cold War. There’s already a considerable pile of books on this area, some of them by Western intelligence officers. However, Coogan has also has hunted down memoirs, document collections and academic comment from the Soviet, Polish and French sides of the intelligence ‘game’. He […]

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[…] pilots meeting UFOs. Where this is all going – your speculation would be as good as mine. It does appear that sections of the US military and intelligence community (and their Soviet/Russian equivalents, as reported by Doty) have been sitting on the big story: homo sapiens is not the only intelligent life form in […]

Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather than explicit: the apparent failure of American and British intelligence. I have to write ‘apparent’ because, with the exception of the invasion of Iraq, where we have seen glimpses of the intelligence and may get more […]

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