On Disinformation: How to fight for truth and protect democracy by Lee McIntyre

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the great game of making Americans believe stupid shit have been the Russians: ‘Evidence for was first reported in the Wall Street Journal, which explained that Russian intelligence had been deliberately creating and pushing anti-Western vaccine stories through four of its English-language propaganda arms. In April 2020, for instance, the Oriental Review published a […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] much truth as possible’, it isn’t just the Castro Cuban commies who must be scrutinised, but everyone who associated with the alleged assassin, including the anti-Castro Cubans, intelligence officers and others who became entwined in the assassination story. It is pure speculation on Shenon’s part that Oswald even read the news reports of Castro’s […]

The G-man and the switchman: Two JFK microstudies by professional investigators

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Florida, a Miami Police Department informant had reported that Milteer had been making ominous remarks about someone shooting Kennedy during a forthcoming motorcade in Miami.1 Miami PD’s intelligence unit duly passed this worrying information to the US Secret Service and, since Milteer lived in Georgia, to the Atlanta offices of the FBI. In the […]

The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil by Charlotte Dennett

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 […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] was red meat for her base. As we know, the death penalty was not re-introduced. In fact, Thatcher had been briefed for some time by UK military intelligence that she could not realistically fight the IRA head–on (as Neave would have wished) and the likelihood was that high levels of violence would continue unless […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by the cables which show diplomatic staff being asked to gather ‘biometric’ data, as if they were low level intelligence assets. Digital security simply isn’t possible. In two years Ministry of Defence staff lost 340 laptops.1 The simple but uncomfortable truth is that to be secure, […]

Swedish echoes

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] short notice as it was deemed too serious a topic for the ‘family friendly’ Wogan. Captain Hayward’s book mentioned nothing at all about his service in 14 Intelligence Company. No doubt, rightly or wrongly, he felt abandoned by the British state (which he had protected by sanitising what could have been a much juicier […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[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 […]

Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland by Anne Cadwallader

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] be familiar: in the 1970s Northern Ireland’s state forces – the police (RUC), the military (UDR) and military reservists, almost exclusively Protestant – shared personnel, weapons and intelligence with the Loyalist (Protestant) paramilitaries. And so when those paramilitaries began killing Catholics – because they were Catholics, not because they were Republicans; sectarian not political […]

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