Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] to targets by independent judges).'(37) Coordinate Remote Viewing ASPR experiments, using a ‘beacon’, were not of much use for any espionage remote viewing programme: they required an agent to be placed in the target area, which was not feasible. And providing the name of the distant target would have resulted in too much cueing […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] dates and documentation that the super-spooks were running a child-abuse and computer fraud gang in Washington DC during the 80s under the guidance of a USAF intelligence agent, Marion David Pettie. Unclassified seems somewhat uncertain about the piece, however, and refers readers’ enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
This article examines hallucinogenic-type drug experiments conducted by various elements of the U.S. Army Intelligence community in conjunction with sections of the U.S. Army Chemical Corps. Most of the related records have been destroyed. The following is what I have been able to salvage from the records available on these programs. Edgewood Tests From the … Read more
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record (<http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord>) is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] that the new material on Murrell is based on a prison whisper. Murray is convinced that ‘the person in charge of the attack was a former MI5 agent who has left the service to run a private detective agency’ (Staines and Egham News, 12 August 1993), and works five minutes from Marble Arch (Outlook, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] upon any sensitive operational techniques of the security and intelligence services, and in particular upon their sources of information, including the identity of any officer, contact or agent.’ After the House of Lords ruling (see below), Liberty is taking the issue of whether the Official Secrets Act 1989 is compatible with the ECHR to […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] it may be true that Haseler is not the important figure in starting the SDP ball rolling CIA asset Brian Crozier claims in his 1993 book Free Agent, but there can be little doubt that he had a considerable transatlantic role before and during the life of the SDP, none of it mentioned by […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] one of the members of Rhodes’ circle, “a brilliant young graduate of Cambridge, Jan Smuts, who had been a vigorous supporter of Rhodes and acted as his agent in Kimberley as late as 1895 and who was one of the most important members of the Rhodes-Milner group in the period 1908-1950 …. became the […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] battalion was at the center of massacre and torture operations in the 1960s as in the 1990s. Its chief then, Sarwo Edhie, has been called a CIA agent or contact. It was he who, while giving orders in Indonesia for the elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party, used the American Army word, ‘psywar.’ ‘The […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
Larry Tye New York: Owl Books, 2002, pb $16.00 ISBN 0 8050 6789 2 If Edward Bernays hadn’t existed, Edward Bernays would have invented him. And in fact this is more or less what happened. This is the long-awaited paperback edition of the first full-length biography of Bernays, who, like President Harry Truman, added … Read more