Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] that on 24 June 2016 he was the speaker ‘at the annual meeting of Le Cercle’ which he goes on to describe as ‘a long-standing, slightly crazy security conference which I have been going to for years’. (p. 44) He tells the meeting (none of the other attendees are named) how difficult and politically […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less Roderick Russell Dr. Arthur Porter, the former chair of Canada’s spy watchdog, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), is in prison in Panama awaiting extradition to Canada where he faces multiple charges that include allegations of bribe taking, money laundering and conspiracy. Two […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] was bed-hopping between the president and Sam Giancana. But given what we now know about the contemporary CIA’s engagement with the Mafia, it’s equally plausible that National Security concerns were involved. 7 potential leak of the Sullivan dossier might inspire in him with the 1964 presidential election looming. If it came to light that […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion mode before the SFO inquiry was killed by Blair, citing ‘ security’ issues, after he was leaned on by the Saudis. Gilby is rather positive about the American experience. Other estimates are less sanguine and I will need […]