Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] idea and well worth pursuing. I thought it was very badly produced, editorially. The subjects that Sebastian (8) picked were so bloody irrelevant. He was obsessed with espionage, so there was an espionage story every other week.’ (9) Michael Grade, for whom I retain a certain affection and who, as the highly-paid chief executive […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, have held hearings on Echelon and related issues, and on July 4, France launched its own investigation into Echelon, economic espionage, and damage to French interests, conducted by a French state prosecutor.(www.zdnet.co.uk/news/2000/26/ns-16418.html) French Parliament’s Echelon Report (Oct 2000) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/2/rap-info/i2623.htm (In French). The report ‘recommends that the EU […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Turner’s account of these events, in his memoir Secrecy and Democracy. (2) On pp.193-205 Turner says the following. The CIA cuts were in what he calls ‘the espionage branch’, otherwise known as the Directorate of Operations. Under DCI George Bush this ‘espionage branch’ had been studied and a reduction of 1350 positions over five […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] of the real problems: over the years ‘intelligence’ has come to be defined by separate ‘products’ such as weapons inspection, which have a predetermined objective, when ‘good’ espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by ‘do-it-yourself’ diplomacy and/or justice: e.g. the campaigns […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] RV is not operationally useful (bad enough but also dismissing the many hits in the oper-ational, non-experimental efforts with RV). Given the low reliability of so many espionage methods and sources, one would have expected them to be delighted with 15% over chance. Obviously, the conclusions were dictated in advance of the evaluation study […]