View from the bridge

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[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.33 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the assassination […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] German, titled CIA, described the National Security Agency ( NSA)’s work in some detail and even named its then director, Ralph Canine.19 As the existence of the NSA was not revealed until the 1970s, this came from an intelligence source, presumably the KGB. The third is the fact that Joesten’s writing about the assassination […]

Manufacturing Terrorism: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society

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[…] 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 […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] Chennault and the Nixon team were doing but decided not to blow the whistle during the election campaign – possibly because the main source on this was NSA intercepts which he didn’t want to reveal. Although we have known about this in outline for a while, Sullivan recounts these events in enormous detail in […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

part 1 best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] never heard of ACSI before the assassination, but in his 2002 book Intelligence Wars Thomas Powers relates how he met former ACSI and National Security Agency ( NSA) commander General William Odom at a party for retired CIA officer Haviland Smith. Over cocktails Powers asked General Odom what brought him together with Haviland Smith, […]

part 1 best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] to him dying as a result of an explosion in the WTC lobby before the plane impacts.3 Two whistle-blowers, Thomas Drake of the National Security Agency ( NSA) and Coleen Rowley of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), offer telling 1 The film documentary 9/11: Press for Truth at details the campaigning work of […]

GArrick part one best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]

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