Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the civilian government of President Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo. The CIA was said to be ‘trying to take over the drug war’ by making heavy payments to army intelligence, or G-2—the same institution that was Noriega’s stepping stone to power. The military was linked to death squads that were blamed for dozens of deaths or […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] chip against the USSR. 4 4 transported from Germany to Japan at that point in time, the US was aware, from its ability to read Japanese signals intelligence, that the Japanese Navy had a flotilla of aircraft-carrying submarines and were considering using these to carry out a long distance raid against a major target […]

David Miliband: working for the man

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] example, the IRC certainly ran ‘purely humanitarian programs’, establishing refugee camps, providing shelter, food and healthcare. But other areas of its activity ‘were directly tied to the intelligence community’. The IRC ran the camps while the CIA trawled them for intelligence sources and for recruits for the various paramilitary outfits it ran. And, on […]

The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy by Graeme MacQueen

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] it quickly became clear that the sophistication of the identified Ames strain of anthrax in the letters meant it could only come from within the military and intelligence apparatus of the US itself. So with al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein off the list of suspects, the FBI began the hunt nearer home. MacQueen recounts the […]

Various: Political life in Britain by Tom Easton

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. 2 strange people indeed, and that their governments were scarred by petty personality feuding that probably damaged ‘Labour’ – New, Old or ageless […]

The American deep state: Wall Street, big oil and the attack on U.S. democracy by Peter Dale Scott

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] faction in the CIA, within that covert operations wing. They formed ‘the Safari club’ and resumed their activities entirely off the books with their equivalents from the intelligence services of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran. This was funded by the Saudis; and, Scott thinks, largely by the mechanism of skimming off the […]

Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology by David H. Price

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] – and ultimately failed – to detach the AMA from state influence and introduce professional limits on research which could be of use to the American military- intelligence state: the dual-use anthropology in the book’s subtitle. The final chapter has an elegiac tone to it as Price contemplates the state of US universities today. […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] story and the ABC trial in the 1970s; a detailed account of the hassles generated by the trickle of books which began in the early 1960s about intelligence during WW2, notably the Bletchley Park ‘ultra’ story; and the farcical events around Peter Wright’s Spycatcher. If the theme and the major incidents are familiar, much […]

Anna Raccoon and the dawn of Savilisation

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Duncroft Approved School, an experimental secure boarding school near London Heathrow, opened by the Home Office to give a second chance of education to girls of above-average intelligence taken into care after breaking the law. The owner of the electronic archive was a retired English lawyer living in the Dordogne, who had herself lived […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on paper? The most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with […]

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