Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] argued that it was all a giant deception operation. 4 or 5 2 and was not involved in the Kennedy assassination and told the Agency that Soviet intelligence had no interest in Oswald.6 This message was welcomed by most because it bolstered the ‘lone assassin’ verdict in the killing of Kennedy. But CIA counterintelligence […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] argued that it was all a giant deception operation. 4 or 5 2 and was not involved in the Kennedy assassination and told the Agency that Soviet intelligence had no interest in Oswald.6 This message was welcomed by most because it bolstered the ‘lone assassin’ verdict in the killing of Kennedy. But CIA counterintelligence […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] pilots meeting UFOs. Where this is all going – your speculation would be as good as mine. It does appear that sections of the US military and intelligence community (and their Soviet/Russian equivalents, as reported by Doty) have been sitting on the big story: homo sapiens is not the only intelligent life form in […]

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[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] that the collapse of the Soviet Empire after 1989 was real and argued that it was all a giant deception operation. 4 or 5 2 that Soviet intelligence had no interest in Oswald.6 This message was welcomed by most because it bolstered the ‘lone assassin’ verdict in the killing of Kennedy. But CIA counterintelligence […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the foreseeable future must be close to zero. *new* UFOs and the USAF So we now have a parade of former US Air Force (USAF) and US intelligence personnel telling the world that yes, the UFO thing is real – even commonplace – for the US military but it has all been covered-up for […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the foreseeable future must be close to zero. *new* UFOs and the USAF So we now have a parade of former US Air Force (USAF) and US intelligence personnel telling the world that yes, the UFO thing is real – even commonplace – for the US military but it has all been covered-up for […]

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