Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Back: The American working class in the 1930s (London: Bookmarks, 2012) p. 119. See also footnote 382. By the winter of 1934, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the Nazi intelligence agency, was congratulating itself on the fact that ‘the Zionists had gained the upper hand over the CV and Jewish veterans’. There was still a fear, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[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 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] ‘The US Army built a bunker in Ancon Hill in the Quarry Heights section of Panama City. It was used by US Southern Command, and included an intelligence centre. Other underground bases include tunnels at two antiaircraft posts and a bunker at Gordo Hill between Paraiso and Gamboa which were built during the Second […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] I did correspondence, etc.’ This is interesting because the Allied occupation of West Germany ended in May 1955, leaving four more years unaccounted for in Dr Lewinson’s intelligence career pre-CIA. (Dr Lewinson remarks that she spent five years in Munich at some time during this 1946-59 period.) The apparent implication is that Dr Lewinson’s […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] military, anti-Castro Cubans, FBI, Oswald and Ruby, LBJ, ‘Mac’ Wallace….but not, apparently, the CIA. The CIA are almost entirely missing from this story. It’s the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) Mackenzie writes about frequently. For a JFK buff the oddity of Mackenzie’s account is the way he brings together a collection of minor trails – […]