Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] enforcement became international, based on the ‘supply-side’ strategy. One of the consequences of US entry into World War I was the expansion of the federal government’s domestic intelligence (policing) apparatus. While US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] are the chances of there being anything significant about the assassination on official US paper anywhere? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that somewhere within the US intelligence community there is institutional knowledge of whodunit,4 we may also assume that nothing will be left on paper which points towards the assassination conspiracy (if anything […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] In Power’s exercise the three Tube stations he imagined being bombed were those actually being bombed. Coles reports this and the conclusion of the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee that it was just a striking coincidence. It certainly was. How do we know about the Power exercise? Because Power phoned into Radio […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] had ingeniously argued that the last war crimes prisoner of Spandau in Berlin was not in fact Hess, but a double, substituted with the connivance of British intelligence. Rzheshevsky seemed surprised that, unlike the KGB files, the British files on Hess were closed for research until 2017 by an act of Parliament. To be […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] is the failure to find Iraq’s ‘WMD stockpiles’ (Bush) or even an active WMD program, the original rationale for the invasion. The protagonists conveniently blame an ‘ intelligence failure’ (Bush) and ‘intelligence.…that turned out to be incorrect’ (Blair) for this omission;9 but then invoke new justifications for the war, including Saddam Hussein’s horrendous human […]