Ultimate Sacrifice

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] – or in Chicago or Tampa – there is no evidence. The case they do make is that after the event Robert Kennedy and the entire military- intelligence complex in the US had a major interest in not revealing anything about the several operations that were going on against Castro. The Kennedy ‘coup’ plan […]

The Perfect English Spy

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] – with G. K. Young prominent – needed reigning in. They were too expensive and too embarrassing when things went wrong. White wanted SIS to be an intelligence service – yes, with clandestine sources – but also one which, he could assure his colleagues in Whitehall, would not embarrass them. No more coup plotting […]

Terrorism: how the West can win

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] did not get out in time.” Thus, it appears, “getting out in time” means anything up to 15 months later! (This really is vaguely insulting to one’s intelligence.) Jilian Becker, now part of the new London-based terrorism institute (see elsewhere in this issue), writes of captured PLO documents showing: “that the Soviet Union, through […]

Mind control and microwave update

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] this field, they commented on ‘The increasing number of persons contacting us for assistance in ending what they believe to be electronic harassment by elements of U.S. Intelligence’. The July issue of their magazine Unclassified (discussed above) has a couple of pages on ‘microwave harassment’. That ANSC is giving credence to the microwave/mind control […]

Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-60

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] the perceptions of the American tax-payer and the subject populations of the informal American empire. (Alternatively, this shows how loyal American academics helped the military and the intelligence services win the war with communism.) My problem with it is that I know nothing at all about ‘modern communication theory’ or its practitioners; and learning, […]

Empire and Superempire

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] In the case of why the Americans attacked Iraq, for example, our knowledge of the actual decision-making process is growing by the week as the military and intelligence bureaucracies leak in the great game of avoiding the blame for the disaster; and the knowledge that the actual evidence is increasingly available diminishes Porter’s discussion […]

The rise and fall of the Bulgarian Connection

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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and author of Grave New World, is a colleague of Francisco Pazienza who acted as a Mr Fix-it between P-2, Italian intelligence and the far right. Sterling acts as a conduit for Ledeen, Henze and their agencies behind her front as Readers Digest hack and archetypal American abroad […]

Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] left to say. In the absence of evidence of the Iraqi regime’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, to the distress of the professional diplomats and most of their intelligence services, the Bush-Blair ‘allies’ used dodgy information from defectors, selectively edited what other information they had, or simply made it up as part of the ‘perception […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity to British intelligence. L. Ron Hubbard, I am convinced, was no spook – just a con man who fleeced Parsons. Parsons had to sell his mansion, which deprived Aleister […]

Phoenix: Policing the Shadows, and, Origins of the Present Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] shot. Phoenix found his activities curtailed and was fearful that the Protestants were going to be sold out. He believed that the handing over of responsibility for intelligence work to MI5 was part of this sellout. Those thought most likely to oppose any deal, whether politicians, civil servants or even police, were themselves to […]

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