Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] in their book The Blair Revelation (Spokesman, Nottingham, 1996) that Powell’s job in the British embassy in Washington concealed a role as the liaison officer between British intelligence and the CIA, but they have no evidence. Powell’s career summary as given in The Diplomatic Service List for 1995 contains nothing from which to definitely […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much of this time in the Middle East, culminating in his being attached to RAF Intelligence in Baghdad in 1957-1958. This was a critical period that saw the UK humiliated by the USA during the Suez crisis in late 1956. At its […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] arrival of post invasion Iraqis – allowed the community, and its children in particular, to evolve quietly as more Iraqis rolled in. It was only in the intelligence sphere – which the majority of 1970s Iraqis were seeking to avoid – that it had high visibility. Some Iraqis were sought out by the SIS; […]