Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] and are now as high as anywhere outside of Manhattan? Well, the Mob happened, in the persons of Bugsy Siegal and Meyer Lansky – as did the Pentagon, courtesy of the US atomic testing programme. Both these influxes of outside talent, people with ‘juice’ to use the Vegas parlance, were presaged by three events […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] post 9/11 world, however, nobody cares and the book is just one more attack on the CIA, which has all but been supplanted in Washington by the Pentagon, which is not accountable to Congress for covert operations, and the rise of the private sector intelligence firms. Notes Author of Portrait of a Cold Warrior […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] author of one of the best books about the CIA, The Secret Team. A senior military officer with years of experience liaising with the CIA for the Pentagon, Prouty wrote a full-bore assault on the Agency. It was a major piece of whistle-blowing as well as a remarkable event in American political life; and […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
What our pols read on their hols This summer it was hard to avoid laudatory pieces about or extracts from the Drew Weston’s book The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.(1) Here, it was said, was the explanation of how George Bush beat the Democrats and – by […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] updated IRD, and ‘public diplomacy’ is a 1980s euphemism for disinformation and psychological warfare. Morgan found that ‘The same story was also being pushed by what the Pentagon correspondent of the U.S. television network ABC called ‘reliable CIA sources’.’ Few disinformation stories can be traced back to their sources, but in this instance Morgan […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] grew, and not just from the standpoint of the Navy. I was dispatched to the White House to brief President Eisenhower and to the bowels of the Pentagon to meet with Allen Dulles as the Navy representative.’ The Lugar report (see note 2) p.16. Lowenkron B.F. (2006) ‘The Essential Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] may well have inspired a few belly laughs in Crypto City. The CIA is passé, history, cold war. In the wake of the World Trade Centre and Pentagon terrorist atrocities, the slight lifting of the curtain on state intelligence-inspired economic espionage will be quietly ignored. While economic espionage was asserted by a former NSA […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] at War Chapter 3.2 Chemical and Biological Warfare Research Chapter 4.1 Nukes on Campus Chapter 4.2 Aldermaston Research Projects Chapter 5.1 Researching for Uncle Sam Chapter 5.2 Pentagon research projects Chapter 6.1 Ailing Alliance – NATO research Chapter 7.1 Electronic spies Chapter 7.2 GCHQ research projects Chapter 8.1 What to do about it Chapter […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] National Endowment for Democracy, which, as Blum notes elsewhere in the book, does overtly what the CIA used to do covertly. The day after the coup, the Pentagon announced that it was ‘kinda delighted’ that ‘all of a sudden’ their ships could go to Fiji. Blum doesn’t note a short article that appeared in […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Greg Palast New York: Dutton, 2006, $25.95, h/b Another whizzer from Palast. It’s content is similar in a general sense to his previous one, The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy: the corruption and power of the global corporations; the venality of politicians (and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats in particular); ‘the … Read more
