Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather than explicit: the apparent failure of American and British intelligence. I have to write ‘apparent’ because, with the exception of the invasion of Iraq, where we have seen glimpses of the intelligence and may get more […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] hunts, double (and triple) agents, James Angleton’s paranoia and the Cold War. There’s already a considerable pile of books on this area, some of them by Western intelligence officers. However, Coogan has also has hunted down memoirs, document collections and academic comment from the Soviet, Polish and French sides of the intelligence ‘game’. He […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Journalism, shows that in 2010: If you copy America, you get America. The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. […]