Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] Afro-Cuban population — a lesson even the US Army and Marines had learned when fighting in Oriente.5 In order to diminish the threat Cuba posed to ‘national security’, it was necessary to import more white folks from the mainland. ‘The establishment of what amounted to Euro-American colonial enclaves in Cuba — with 13,000 US […]
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[PDF file]: […] is also the person who wrote in the 1977 notorious ‘Gable memo’: “I have given the names I have acquired to be checked out by British/ French security services, especially the French and German connections, and the South American stuff is being checked by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s institute”. It is argued by Gable’s defenders that […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Osborne told me himself that all of this was about spin and politics’. We hear from ex-Afghanistan-serving soldier Joe Glenton: ‘The main reason we were there wasn’t security here in Britain or security there in Afghanisatan. It was because of a perception that we’d failed in US eyes.’ And from Jones himself, a lucid […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] exposed him. In his biography of Philby, Phillip Knightley reports that the failure of Operation Valuable stemmed from the penetration of Albanian émigré organizations by the Albanian security service, ‘and more than one of these penetration agents managed to be selected for the CIA-SIS operation’.26 Some years after this, in 2013, Knightley told me: […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] from Dale Campbell-Savours MP and a meeting of senior civil servants in the office of Home Secretary Alun Michael. Campbell-Savours, a member of the Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, complained to Cumbria police that he was being harassed by dozens of strange telephone calls, apparently generated by a computer in Florida. He also complained […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show diplomatic staff being asked to gather ‘biometric’ data, as if they were low level intelligence assets. Digital security simply isn’t possible. In two years Ministry of Defence staff lost 340 laptops.1 The simple but uncomfortable truth is that to be secure, digital data demands […]