The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

Why do they do this? In the previous issue I referred to the fictitious comments attributed by Tony Blair to a doctor in Africa. They’ve done it again. In February Blair’s spin doctor in chief, Alastair Campbell, claimed to have saved a man from being beaten by muggers, The Mail on Sunday (23 February) traced […]

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The attack on the USS Liberty

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] told me that the Israeli attack was deliberate, not an accident: Secretary of State Dean Rusk Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer CIA Director Richard Helms NSA Deputy Director Louis Tordella. I am no authority on conspiracy theories, but there seem to be three possibilities here. A) Rusk, Moorer, Helms and Tordella were […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] all the fault of the Xs’ variety. Who needs these crazy conspiracy theories? The great federal law and order and intelligence conspiracies like the FBI, CIA and NSA need them to legitimize and empower the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. OK, it’s just a hypothesis, but is there any evidence that the U.S. government has funded […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] for whom Britain is a main target?'(27) This campaign of dissent from the British security and intelligence establishment climaxed with the leaking of a request from the NSA for UK (GCHQ) help in bugging and surveilling the homes and offices of UN delegations to the Security Council. The leak, said Peter Beaumont and Gaby […]

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Cloak and Dollar, and, Know Your Enemy

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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 […]

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Non-lethality: John B. Alexander, the Pentagon’s Penguin

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] of Naval Intelligence. The majority of the group’s members are senior members of the AVIARY: Dr. Christopher Green (BLUEJAY) from the CIA (39); Harold Puthoff (OWL) ex- NSA; Dr Jack Verona (RAVEN) (DoD, one of the initiators of the DIA’s Sleeping Beauty project which aimed to achieve battlefield superiority using mind-altering electromagnetic weaponry); John […]

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Web Update

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 […]

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The Big C: Further notes on ‘conspiracy’

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 […]

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Mind Control and the American Government

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] a conversation he had with the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) — in 1953. The director asked Lilly to brief the CIA, FBI, NSA and the various military intelligence services on his work using electrodes to stimulate directly the pleasure and pain centres of the brain. Lilly refused, noting in […]

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KAL 007 and Overhead Surveillance

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Ball, D. The Ties That Bind, Allen and Unwin, London 1985, p178). Even sophisticated overhead intelligence platforms like Rhyolite have their limitations, principally those of payload. The NSA were also monitoring the TELINT associated with missile launches from Krasnoyarsk from their station in northern Iran, only a couple of hundred miles away (Bamford p198). […]

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