Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Those seeking a stronger antidote in these dark times can turn to Footnote 8 continued: However, The Washington Post will not knowingly disclose the identities of US intelligence agents, except under highly unusual circumstances which must be weighed by the senior editors.’ When I returned from the United States to work at The Guardian, […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] for Grand Theft Auto’. According to ex-LASO detective Preston Guillory, Manson was never arrested ‘because our department thought he was going to attack the Black Panthers’ ( intelligence had revealed Manson’s shooting of Bernard Crowe). Guillory told O’Neill: ‘I believe there was something bigger Manson was working on. Cause a stir. Blame it on […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] the Cold War gathered momentum. The Western allies began to work hard to loosen the Soviet grip on eastern Europe and to this end British and American intelligence now started to back the OUNUPA struggle against Moscow. They provided logistical support and more Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] former Saudi defence employee called Omar al-Bayoumi, who had arrived in 22 the US in 1994. Even before 9/11 the FBI had al-Bayoumi down as a Saudi intelligence officer, noting his ‘extensive ties to the Saudi Government’ and his extravagant personal spending despite being officially unemployed. Al-Bayoumi had a close personal friend (another Saudi […]

We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews by Jon Gold

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] work of the victims’ families. 2 3 testimony – as does J. Michael Springmann, a State Department employee in Saudi Arabia who was pressured by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) into giving visas to some of the alleged hijackers. Nafeez Ahmed was one of the first academics to question the Bush administration’s version of […]

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

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[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)

[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)

[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)

[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 […]

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