The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.39 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] bad scan and is jumbled and partly unintelligible. The readable piece is at . 5 even named its then director, Ralph Canine.16 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.12 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] in German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency (NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.4 As the existence of the NSA was not publicly acknowledged until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] It was a leak not a hack.6 Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern has been saying a similar thing. McGovern’s had several conversations with senior people at the NSA. They assured him that, had the Russians been responsible for any such a hack the NSA would have detected it; but, as they didn’t detect anything, […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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”’.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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