Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] her comments at Kwiatkowski is dropping broad hints that, in her view, there is something fishy here. In ‘Pakistan and 9/11’, at B. Raman, a former Indian intelligence officer, discusses advance knowledge of 9-11 among Pakistan’s intelligence community and concludes: ‘It is, therefore, impossible that the Pakistani authorities would not have known of Al […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] Haig, a popular candidate; second, although not named, he is situated in the past of Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward. Hougan says that Woodward worked for Naval Intelligence at the highest levels and speculates that Deep Throat was connected to Admiral Zumwalt who was opposed to Nixon’s foreign policy. Woodward has denied this, as […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] scandals blighted the Labour Party. Were these events connected? Co-ordinated? If so — and there is no evidence yet — what was the mechanism? The CANZAB counter- intelligence conferences begun in the 1960s look interesting…. Below, Owen Wilkes discusses the first book, albeit a novel, to attempt to elaborate the New Zealand situation; and […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] in parapolitics in the United States. And not before time. The interest in conspiracies is simply reality breaking through. The Reagan-Thatcher years saw unprecedented expansions of unregulated intelligence and military agencies, and breathtaking multi-billion rip-offs (most obviously, in the U.S., the S and L scam; in the UK, privatisation). No one should be remotely […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] Wilson’s Cabinet Office is infiltrated. Rhodesian agents murder one of their own operatives who has turned against them in London, and another agent is killed by British intelligence after they and Special Branch monitor his activities. The agent, Geoff Dominy ….’ (emphasis added) Typical of Searchlight to make a startling allegation without offering any […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Thabo Mbeki, or their ministers, civil servants, diplomats and generals. They will be able to target opposition politicians too. They will become immensely powerful. If adequate artificial intelligence applications could be developed – what are called ‘Turing Test-compliant’ artificial intelligence applications – it would soon become affordable to target millions of people with automated […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] attributed to Harold Covington, described as the ‘outside influence to bring together several disparate factions and groupings into C18’ (p. 2). There was speculation of a possible intelligence input, that of the ‘South African state security services’ (p. 3), though the only evidence offered was the presence of some anti-Apartheid individuals on the Redwatch […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] sabotage or a lack of security for the crash, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Gul will almost certainly have to step down as head of the powerful Inter Services Intelligence organisation, ISI. As head of ISI, Gul is the key figure involved in the training and equipping of the mojahedin based around Peshawar, and is their […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] text of a speech given by Fidel Castro the day after the shooting. Fidel’s speech is rather striking: 24 hours after the shooting he – or his intelligence people – had already spotted the attempts in the immediate aftermath to portray Oswald as pro-Soviet and pro-Castro. We get letters from Kruschev to Castro; we […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] seeking support for what was called a Danube Confederation. This was actually a recasting of Intermarium, a project that the Vatican, and, to a certain extent, British Intelligence, had tinkered with since the 20s. This produced little actual success. Two British-backed attempts to install pro-western clericalist governments in Poland and Slovakia before the arrival […]