The View from the Bridge

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[…] justify a U.S. invasion of Cuba. . . .’ These are the Operation Northwoods documents which were included in James Bamford’s book Body of Secrets on the NSA a couple of years later and have become a staple of the parapolitical canon. Curious that such a startling revelation had to wait until 9/11 to […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] recently there was no (public) evidence showing Russian, let alone Russian state involvement.125 The closest we have got to evidence is a piece at The Intercept, ‘Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election’ and a report in the Washington Post recounting the Obama administration’s response to receiving a CIA report […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] they dragged their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] they dragged their feet during the talks until after the election. Which they duly did. Chennault’s role became known in the Johnson White House – presumably the NSA or CIA had the conference wired for sound – but Johnson did nothing, said nothing.27 And these events are still being suppressed on the Democratic side […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.25 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.26 But the […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and obstructed by the Ford administration; […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.25 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.26 But the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] passim), Evans, who for many years has lived in New York, continues to be protective of US security interests. In a Guardian article in 2012, he described NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as ‘narcissistic’. Friends of Israel M edia Society joint host James Harding was soon joined in the upper reaches of the BBC as […]

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[…] plausible to me but there is much there I am not competent to evaluate. A pity then that This Will Hold chose to run ‘Ex-CIA Whistleblower: “The NSA Audited The 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won”’.14 For a little poking around about the author, Adam Zarnowski, suggests this ‘ex-CIA Whistleblower’ is not reliable.15 But the […]

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