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[…] 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 […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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

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[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

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[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 […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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; […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the US Congress, named after their respective chairmen, Sen. Frank Church and Rep. Otis Pike. These select committees investigated the illegal activities of the CIA, FBI, and NSA between 1975 and 1976. 7 Calvin Coolidge, ‘After all, the chief business of the American people is business…’ Reported in a speech to the American Society […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] War’ section of the Enigma History page at Crypto Museum . 55 ‘The captured Enigma machines ended up in the vaults of CG&GS (now: GCHQ) and the NSA, or were given to other countries with the message that they could not be broken.’ Sue Halpern, ‘The Drums of Cyberwar’ at . 56 the one […]

Life during wartime Resisting counterinsurgency by Kristian Williams et al

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to have wandered into the wrong conference.) Unfortunately the book was put together before the NSASnowden events and doesn’t directly address the largely unspoken subtext of the NSA story: how do you organise for change when the state can intercept all electronic and paper communications? Send hand-carried messages? Use pigeons? Because counterinsurgency (CI) theory […]

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