Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the Watcher? Redux Permanent Record Edward Snowden London: MacMillan, 2019 Citizenseven ‘I used to work for the government, but now I work for the public’, claims former CIA employee and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in the second sentence of recent memoir, Permanent Record. That this immodest claim is one of the […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] the true size of an economy? For clarity, on a purely statistical basis, the data collected by the IMF, the UN, the World Bank and even the CIA is worth looking at in some detail. This shows that the UK is the 21st largest country in the world in terms of population. But GDP […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[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 […]
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 […]
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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 61 (Summer 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] asked by President Bush on 12 September 2001). The propensity of senior US figures to hold such views has been remarked on by Michael Scheuer, a former CIA official, who is quoted on page 58 about the intellectual proclivities of Wolfowitz, Bush and others: Europe-Asia-Africa a determining factor? If so, how should the rest […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] (it’s not actually bulky, but a slim volume) consists of an exploration of the claim of Lt. Col. Dan Marvin that he was ‘sounded out’ by a CIA officer as Pitzer’s assassin. Lt. Col. Marvin didn’t go through with it, but clearly even a failed attempt to recruit a murderer counts as evidence connected […]