Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and lobbying firm.43 Spooks and hacks W ill the time ever come when a British editor comes clean and tells us of his paper’s association with foreign intelligence services – or even British ones, come to that? Richard Keeble has surveyed some of what is known about such British links4 4 but nothing has […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Britain and Saudi Arabia which led to allegations of massive corruption. The investigation was closed down by the Blair government when the Saudis threatened to end their intelligence relationship with Britain if it was pursued.4 He gave hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservative Party and made a donation of £20 million to […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] recovered, we do know from Reynolds that Morton recommended that Britain provide assistance in the training of Sri Lankan special forces and in training and reorganising their intelligence apparatus. As Miller points out, this involved providing assistance to a regime whose troops and police were routinely torturing and killing Tamil prisoners. Morton returned to […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief was just viable. By 1960 it was clear to US intelligence and military that the Soviet Union was a nuclear minnow, compared to the US. That ‘danger’ was the rationalisation for the CIA’s activities. There was no […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] £21.99, $27.95 (US) Robin Ramsay The author’s father died in a plane crash – flight 3804 – in 1947 in Ethiopia. He was working for the Central Intelligence Group – which was about to be renamed the CIA – and was America’s leading undercover officer in the Middle East. The author, a journalist, describes […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] a portrait of Oswald which could have been written in 1964; in which, like the version in Legend, all the evidence of Oswald’s links to the American intelligence services is omitted.4 And in Legend, after spending hundreds of thousands of Reader’s Digest dollars on researchers in an attempt to show that Oswald was a […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Men Who Stole the World, 5 he has this towards the end of the prologue: ‘Offshore connects the criminal underworld with the financial elite, the diplomatic and intelligence establishments with multinational corporations. Offshore drives conflict, shapes our perceptions, creates financial instability and delivers staggering rewards to les grands — to the people who matter. […]