Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] They had done their homework on Puthoff’s background, his work as an Officer of Naval Intelligence, and then as a civilian with the National Security Agency ( NSA) a few years before. Puthoff was told that there was increasing concern in the CIA about Soviet parapsychology efforts and its KGB, GRU funding. Since parapsychology […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] them by the US. ‘The UK has no intelligence assets in central Asia. We are dependent on information given to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA.’ The British overseas lobby in Whitehall – like Tony Blair – still dreams of being a ‘world player’. But it doesn’t have the tax resources to […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] credit there is to be had from the killing of more than a million Afghanis.(2) Bamford spends much less time on the run-up to 9-11. With his NSA sources (he wrote The Puzzle Palace about the NSA), he emphasises the technical difficulties involved in tracking and intercepting people who are using digital communications, and […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’ Citizenseven No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency ( NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, according to […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] network) provided the Americans with intelligence up to 1975, long after Harold Wilson had – publicly at least – expressed his Government’s opposition to the war. The NSA co-ordinated all signals intelligence in SE Asia, and Little Sai Wan was linked to this operation. Its intercepts of North Vietnamese military traffic were used by […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] neglected provenance in the administration of Lyndon Johnson. The crippling of the 455-foot USS Liberty, a SIGINT intelligence vessel run jointly by the US navy and the NSA, in a sustained two hour attack by Israeli bombers and torpedo craft at the height of the 1967 Middle East war, is still regarded as a […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] stationed in the host country, and the Commanding General of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command; and where electronic surveillance is required, the co-operation of the NSA. I am assured that similar regulations are in place for the US Air Force and Navy. (What the CIA and NSA does in these areas seems […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
McKinney/Africa/covert action Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored a forum, ‘Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.’ And this isn’t just cold war history; this is names, people and companies doing it today. The text of the meeting is at www.copvcia.comand Red spiels The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) has now posted […]