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 […]

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[…] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] story at the bottom of page 17 of The Times on 23 January was a reference to a report ‘put together with the help of the joint intelligence committee . . . Due to be published last autumn it was blocked by No 10 as too negative’. The BBC discussed it on the 27th,6 […]

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[…] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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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[…] 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 […]

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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 […]

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