Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] subtitle is misleading: this is really a book about the CIA and its progenitors running back into the 19th century. There is almost nothing here about the NSA, DIA, NRO and all the rest of the alphabet soup of the post WW2 American intelligence community. The early material is the most interesting; and, to […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] ‘the shah of Iran, for example, came to depend deeply on the U.S government’: for weapons, spooks, police, military and counter insurgency training and advice, intelligence from NSA etc. etc. Pipes continues, stuffing his other foot into his mouth. On the one hand: ‘Much of the region’s anti-Western, anti-Israel, anti-democratic, anti-moderate and anti-modern behavior […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] losses resulting from interception activities were published by the US press – before Europe became concerned about the ECHELON system. See: ‘Germany, UK breaching human rights with NSA spy link-up’, Duncan Campbell, 27 May 2001, www.heise.de/tp/english/special/ech/7753/1.html; and Campbell’s reports to the ECHELON C’tee: ‘ECHELON and its role in COMINT’, Jan. 2001, www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/ech/7747/1.html which summarises […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] the pool; and we got more than enough mud already.(2) Knightsbridge news Mohamed Al-Fayed’s law suit – all 40 pages of it – against the CIA, DIA, NSA et al for denying him documents under the Freedom of Information Act which he believes they possess was posted on the Net on 1 September 2000.(3) […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] attempted to get sight of these under the terms of the United States Freedom of Information Act. The Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency ( NSA) have confirmed that they hold 39 documents consisting of 1,056 pages of information relating to Diana and Dodi but they refuse to reveal it on the […]