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[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael V. Hayden New York: Penguin Random House, 2019 Bluster: Donald Trump’s War on Terror Peter R. Neumann […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] United States on the Labour Party, the European Movement and British trade unions. In 1972 Richard Fletcher was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to investigate US intelligence activities at the time of Hugh Gaitskell, and when many questioned the funding source, among other things, of Encounter magazine which much favoured the Labour leader’s […]

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[…] but it has been co-opted by NATO.1 It may still do interesting work but I now wouldn’t trust it any more than I would any other NATO/American intelligence operation. It has substantial funding, employs numerous staff, the behaviour of some of whom is becoming that of any other psy-war outfit. Bellingcat staffer Christopher Grozev2 […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from the general public. For the record, I do not believe any such thing. It has been amply demonstrated that stories about UFOs and extraterrestrials serve various intelligence bodies as a useful way of discrediting people or other organisations. It is this discrediting tactic that is the focus of the present work. 1: Flights […]

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[…] 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 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published a steady output of […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] even China – comes close to challenging the United States in power and influence. The US’s strength lies in its power to bribe, the breadth of its intelligence agencies, its sophisticated public relations operations, and especially its military might. Consequently, it is the ambition of US businesses, using the military as a vehicle, to […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] is pretty good. 12 6 truth: Spooks, now and then Cryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 […]

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