Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] O’Brien’s office.” “We tap them, they tap us, it’s routine,” he said.’ (p. 188) It is surprising that a former senior CIA officer, whose speciality had been security, let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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Contents America’s Cold War The politics of in security Campbell Craig and Frederick Logevall Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Mass. and London, 2009 Robin Ramsay In this two history professors, one British (Craig, Aberystwyth), the other American (Logevall, Cornell) examine the American end of the Cold War and conclude that it was almost but not […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Units, however, were a much larger scale operation than either Section D or Section VII. Any such large-scale effort within the UK border by one of the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] so tragic, and as I read and reread the The Mitrokhin Inquiry Report I was struck by one of the key items contained in the Intelligence and Security Committee’s central questionnaire, which was never answered. It was to be found in point three out of a total of five principal issues to be addressed: […]

The Scottish National Party and the American State

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[PDF file]: […] prosper within the party hierarchy. I believe this is an exercise in cultivating assets rather than planting agents. Circumstantial connections between Sturgeon’s inner circle and the AngloAmerican Security State are copious. Readers of Lobster are likely familiar with the British American Project (BAP) and its official origin story.1 This official history was, of course, […]

Cummings, Greensill and all that

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] allowing it to report higher cash flows and inflate executive pay without justification Investigations suggest that the company did not only lend to its clients against the security of invoices for work already completed or even contracted, but against “prospective receivables” that the company had not yet generated, and indeed might never generate.’ 9 […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] China, the last classical enemies were gone – but the war was not over. Carter’s ludicrous attempts to blame the Soviet Union for the war his national security advisor Brzezinski instigated and covertly funded in Afghanistan were largely a deadly distraction with no initial impact on the new ‘enemy’. Reagan’s attempts to portray Nicaragua […]

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