Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA Jonathan Marshall Alliances between the Central Intelligence Agency and organized crime in
 the United States remain some of the most closely guarded secrets of the
 Cold War era. The Agency went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its recruitment of leading U.S. mobsters in 1960 to assassinate […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] . 2 Peter Blaker was a ‘former diplomat’ who served in Thatcher cabinets and would later, due to ‘knowledge of defence, foreign policy and the world of intelligence’ be ‘the only Lords member of the Intelligence and Security Committee’. See or 3 1 abundantly clear that the author, Andrew Rosthorn, is intricately familiar with […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

View from the bridge

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[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Vietnam, and the protests of the Sixties, and Nixon and Watergate. It was headed into the Tehran Embassy crisis, a revolution the trillions of dollars of US intelligence never saw coming, and the fall of our buddy in democracy, the Shah. Jimmy Carter took the blame for that, and America launched itself into twenty […]

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

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[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

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[…] the European Fact-Checking Standards Network Project (EFCSN), a European Union (EU) funded project, civil society organisations have cooperated to establish voluntary guidelines for investigators conducting public-facing Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) work.11 In November 2023, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) launched the Defending Against Disinformation-Common Data Model (DAD-CDM) project, “a open […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] page 178 Glenn Sample writes: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

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