Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all the welcome candour of some of his interviewees, there are still corns that Urban won’t tread on. The whole ‘Wilson […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] vehicle in selling/branding America/Britain to aspirational and/or new elites. New York shopping-tourism (a barometer of new elites, including cigar-smoking wealthy men/their mistresses, always useful background information for espionage) could also suffer. 2 With all its WTO business, Geneva is enjoying a renaissance and the spooks presumably are again running around all over the place. […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] run by the Technical Services Staff (TSS), which is also known as Technical Services Division (TSD). The main purpose of these programs was their potential use in espionage and covert operations. In 1973, tipped-off about forthcoming investigations, Richard Helms, then Director of Central Intelligence, ordered the destruction of any MKULTRA records. In 1976, in […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] at < http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/hermanmay 98.htm > . 49 This was ‘blow back’ on a grand scale. 50 See James Der Derian, ‘Anti-Diplomacy, Intelligence Theory and Surveillance Practice’ in Espionage Past, Present, Future? edited by Wesley K. Wark (London: Frank Cass, 1994) pp. 37-8. Der Derian is a post-modernist trying to apply his theories to this […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] dollars into the exile groups. Frank Wisner, the director of the CIA’s Clandestine Operations Directorate and architect of the agency’s covert funding policy, ‘believed in the tremendous espionage potential of its Eastern European emigre organisations, their value as propagandists and agents of influence.’ (42) The CIA sponsored a front called the National Committee for […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Also link to Gulflink (see below). FBI http://www.fbi.gov/ Menu includes overview of the FBI, FAQs, and FBI investigations including the unabomber, Oklahoma City and DECA programme ( espionage, counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism awareness) Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.lanl.gov/ Details of some of the extensive range of research work undertaken at LANL, eg nuclear weapons, computer […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] We learned only recently that US intelligence services had broken part of the Soviet codes as early as 1948, thus learning some of the reality of Soviet espionage penetration in the pre-war US. Andersen’s official history states that the initial idea for business computing came from one of their employees, Joseph Glickauf – and […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] footsie with both the Americans and the Soviets, would have hardly have booted out a Soviet agent and risked jeopardizing Egyptian-Soviet relations. He also asserts that ‘the espionage reporters of all the great papers all now work hand in glove with the Security Service’.(p. 155) Names please, Mr West? As to West’s contention that […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] State Secretary, Baron Guttenberg, personally gave me the task of keeping the dubious Mr Violet – whose cover name was Little Violet – under observation for counter espionage purposes. Nothing came of this for reasons that I don’t need to go into here … ‘One recent development is the establishment within the Circle of […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] John Stockwell. He has written a history of the CIA ignoring all the Agency’s main defectors and whistle-blowers. Yet in his previous book on this subject, American Espionage: from Secret Service to CIA (London: Collier, Macmillan, 1977) his bibliography contains both Marchetti and Agee and he cites both of them. But that was 1977 […]